UK bans Palestine Action under terrorism law
British MPs have voted by a majority to designate Direct Action Group, Palestine Action, as a terrorist organization.
I think it is just complete hypocrisy … the British government arming a terrorist state and calling a non-violent organization ‘terrorists’.
Demonstrator 01
I think it's absolutely outrageous, and I think it's audacious that a government that's currently facilitating a live stream holocaust of children has the audacity to claim that they get to define what terrorism is.
Demonstrator 02
The decision came after two activists broke into a military base in central England, sprayed red paint into military aircraft engines and damaged them using crowbars.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, who introduced the proscription, described the action as disgraceful.
The group's supporters say the ban is a travesty.
There are hundreds and hundreds of MPs who today should hang their heads in shame.
They're a stain on British democracy. They're a stain on our civil rights, our civil liberties and our right to freedom of expression and political thought and action.
We will never forget what they have done, and we will never forgive them.
Andrew Fenstein, Activist
Since its inception, five years ago, Palestine Action has mostly targeted UK based arms companies like Elbit Systems with ties to the Israeli occupation force.
The group says its nonviolent measures are aimed at ending UK enabling of Israel's genocidal war on Palestinians
Starmer and his bunch of spineless MPs have gone a step further than Margaret Thatcher, and they have proscribed a peaceful, non-violent, movement... to try and stop it from carrying out its peaceful, non-violent direct action. And that is terrifying.
Andrew Fenstein, Activist
After clearing the House of Commons, the legislation will now have to go through the House of Lords before the interior minister signs it into law.
The demonstrators assert that this vote sets a dangerous precedent; for the first time, the British government has designated a political group as a terrorist entity.
Consequently it can treat Palestine Action and its members, the way it does al-Qaeda and Daesh.
Henceforth, any show of support for the group, even attending demonstrations, could mean up to 14 years in prison for the participants.
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