Palestine Action’s ban under terrorism laws will remain in place after the Home Office won a court appeal against the group’s proscription.
A rare five-judge panel at the Court of Appeal found that the High Court was wrong when it previously ruled that the group’s proscription was unlawful.
The group was banned by then-Home Secretary Yvette Cooper in July 2025 after members broke into RAF Brize Norton and vandalised jets to protest the war in Gaza.
The High Court had previously ruled that Ms Cooper’s decision to ban Palestine Action under terrorism legislation was unlawful. Three senior judges at the High Court concluded that only a small number of Palestine Action’s activities amounted to terrorism, and that the group’s acts had not crossed the high bar to make it a terrorist organisation.
The High Court said that Ms Cooper had failed to consider whether imposing a terror ban on Palestine Action was “proportionate” to the threat posed by the organisation. Justice Sharp wrote that, by doing this, Ms Cooper had made a “significant” error by failing to follow the Home Office’s own policy on proscription.
Since the group’s proscription, thousands of people have been arrested for holding placards in support of Palestine Action.
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