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    Home - London - Palestine Action: The ‘enemy within’ or non-violent protesters?
    London Updated:June 23, 2025

    Palestine Action: The ‘enemy within’ or non-violent protesters?

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    Palestine Action: The ‘enemy within’ or non-violent protesters?

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    • Home Secretary Yvette Cooper plans to ban Palestine Action following an incident where the group vandalised RAF Brize Norton, seeking to classify it as a terrorist organisation.
    • The proposed ban has sparked significant debate, with critics, including singer Paloma Faith, arguing that the group’s non-violent protests should not be equated with terrorism.
    • Supporters of the ban, including government adviser Lord Walney, argue that Palestine Action has engaged in harmful activities that warrant a crackdown.

    Palestine Action: The ‘enemy within’ or non-violent protesters?

    The impending ban on protest group Palestine Action has divided opinion – described as both “outrageous” and “long overdue”.

    Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is expected to take the step after the group broke into RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire on e-scooters and sprayed two Voyager planes with red paint.

    The prime minister described the attack as “outrageous” and a rapid review of security at MoD bases is under way.

    It was the latest protest in a five-year campaign from Palestine Action (PA) that has targeted arms manufacturers, financial institutions, political figures and government buildings.

    On its website, PA says it is a “direct action movement” committed to ending “global participation” in what it calls Israel’s “genocidal and apartheid regime”.

    It adds that it uses “disruptive tactics” to target “corporate enablers of the Israeli military-industrial complex”.

    Banning the group would make membership of it illegal. It would be treated as a terrorist organisation.

    Saeed Taji Farouky, a spokesman for PA, told Sky News that potential proscription was “unfair”, adding that it was “ludicrous” that a “civil society direct action group” could end up on the same list as ISIS.

    He added: “It’s not logical, it’s not even consistent with the British legal definition of terrorism, it’s a reaction that’s been taken overnight, with almost no discussion or debate.

    “The whole thing is incredibly worrying, mostly for what it means about British law in general, about undermining the very basis of British democracy and the rule of law.”

    There are “no circumstances” under which the two people who breached Brize Norton would be handed over to the police, he said.

    Singer-songwriter Paloma Faith, who spoke at a pro-Palestine rally in Whitehall in central London on Saturday, told Sky News she was “devastated” by the move.

    “I have met some of the people who have friends in that group. They are young students and they are basically trying to do something because they feel that our government is failing them.”

    She added that “everyone” wants to end what she described as a “massacre” in Gaza.

    Israel says its military campaign in Gaza is a way of defending itself against Hamas, which killed more than a thousand people in its 7 October attacks and took about 240 people hostage. Hamas-run health authorities claim Israeli attacks have since killed almost 56,000 people in Gaza.

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