On Wednesday 4 November 2026, Palestine Action co-founder Huda Ammori challenged Britain’s decision to ban the campaign group as a terrorist organisation at the UK Supreme Court.
Her lawyer, Raza Husain, argued that the move was disproportionate and undermined counter-terrorism laws, comparing the group to the suffragettes.
The government proscribed the group in July 2025 after incidents mostly targeting defence firms, culminating in a break-in at RAF Brize Norton in which two planes were damaged.
The Home Office argues that escalating actions causing serious property damage, including a 2024 raid targeting Israeli defence firm Elbit Systems, amounted to terrorism.
London’s High Court initially ruled the ban unlawful, but the Court of Appeal overturned that decision in June.
Ammori’s lawyers said officials had assessed that just 3 of 385 actions over five years met the definition of terrorism at the time of proscription.
More than 3,600 arrests linked to support for Palestine Action were made between proscription in July 2025 and June 2026, amounting to over one-third of all terrorism arrests in Britain since 9/11, according to Home Office statistics. The total has since risen past 4,000, after more than 300 arrests last weekend outside the US embassy in London and about two dozen outside the Supreme Court on Wednesday. Any resulting charges could be dropped if the ban is overturned.
The United States also designated the group as a terrorist group in August.
Source: Reuters
