Palestine Action to Challenge Ban After UK Court Upholds Proscription, Activist Says
June 16, 2026
They may have banned the movement. They haven’t silenced it.
After the UK Court of Appeal upheld the government’s decision to proscribe Palestine Action, activists vowed to keep fighting the ban through the courts.
Speaking outside London’s Royal Courts of Justice, activist and writer Lisa Luxx read a statement from Palestine Action co-founder Huda Ammori, who said the group would continue challenging the decision and remain committed to campaigning against companies accused of supplying weapons used in Israel’s war on Gaza.
It is about the right to protest.
The right to challenge arms manufacturers.
And the right to take direct action against companies they believe are profiting from war.
The message from Palestine Action was clear:
The legal battle is not over.
And neither is the campaign against companies linked to the destruction in Gaza.
As pressure grows across Britain over its relationship with Israel and the arms industry, many activists say attempts to criminalise dissent will only strengthen demands for accountability.
You can ban an organisation.
You cannot ban a movement.
Source from X: @PulseofPal
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English Script:
Huda Ammori: We will not stop fighting to overturn one of the most extreme attacks on free speech and the right to protest in modern British history. This unprecedented abuse of power has devastated the lives of thousands of people. While silencing dissent over Israel’s slaughter of the Palestinian people during the genocide, when that dissent could not be more urgent. This is the first time in British history that a civil disobedience group has been described as a terrorist organization. Placing Palestine action alongside ISIS and Boko Haram. Despite the fact that we do not advocate violence and we exist to save lives by disrupting the supply of weapons used by Israel against the Palestinian people. Throughout these proceedings, the government accepted that this prescription was based on property damage, not violence against people. By the government’s own logic then, the suffragettes, anti-apartheid activists and the anti-war direct action groups that Keir Starmer himself once defended as a lawyer could have been labeled terrorists. The British public knows that taking action saves lives and is not terrorism.
