LONDON (AP) 鈥� The British government acted lawfully when it banned as a terrorist organization, the Court of Appeal in London ruled on Monday.
Chief Justice Sue Carr said the group was not a civil disobedience organization, as it claimed, and that it operated with covert cells to destroy property of at defense companies and on military bases.
鈥淚n our judgment, that premise was seriously flawed. It was not a sustainable proposition to portray Palestine Action as a non-violent organization,鈥� Carr said.
The ruling overturned a decision in February by three senior High Court judges who found that despite the group promoting through some crimes, the scale of activities did .
The ban remained in place while the government to appeal.
The government outlawed the group after activists in June 2025 to protest British military support for Israel鈥檚 military offensive against Hamas in Gaza, which killed tens of thousands of Palestinians. That incident followed several other acts of vandalism by the group.
Palestine Action was declared a terrorist organization alongside the likes of al-Qaida and Hamas, making membership in or support for the group a crime punishable by up to 14 years in prison.
Since then, more than 3,300 people have been arrested at protests for holding signs saying, 鈥淚 oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action.鈥� More than 700 have been under the U.K.’s Terrorism Act, although no one has yet been convicted.
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