Published on 6/16/2026
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Last update: 06:41 (Mecca time)
Yesterday, Monday, the British Court of Appeal upheld the ban on the “Palestine Action” movement, known for its advocacy for the Palestinian people and organizing protests against companies dealing with Israel, considering this a “legal decision.”
The ruling came after a lawsuit filed by the British Ministry of the Interior before the Court of Appeal, following the Supreme Court’s decision that deemed the group “not a terrorist organization.”
The President of the Court of Appeal, Judge Sue Carr, read the decision, declaring that “the UK Home Office’s designation of the group as a prohibited organization is lawful.”
Carr acknowledged that banning the “Palestine Action” movement and classifying it as a terrorist organization “raises great controversy,” but added: “But it would be a grave mistake to ignore the fact that the group promotes illegal violence that rises to the level of terrorism.”
Inside the court, five Court of Appeal judges said that the group’s ban – which began on July 5 last year – represented a “justified and proportionate” interference with freedom of expression rights.
Interior Minister Shabana Mahmoud said – after the ruling was issued – that the group’s activities “are not consistent with democratic values and the rule of law.”
The British government banned the movement after activists stormed a British Royal Air Force base in June 2025, in protest against British military support for the Israeli war of genocide on the Gaza Strip, which resulted in the martyrdom of tens of thousands of civilians and the destruction of 90% of the infrastructure in the Strip.
The ban made belonging to or supporting the movement a criminal offense punishable by up to 14 years in prison. Since the start of the ban, police have arrested more than 3,000 supporters of the movement during demonstrations in support of it.
Appeal the decision
For her part, Hoda Amouri – co-founder of the movement – announced that she intends to file an appeal before the Supreme Court, and if necessary, before the European Court of Human Rights.
Her post on the “X” platform said: “We will not stop fighting to lift this ban,” and “Above all, for a free Palestine.”
Following the issuance of the decision, a large number of pro-Palestine demonstrators – who gathered in front of the Court of Appeal – expressed their disappointment in the ruling.
Protesters were seen being taken or carried away by police officers, while some of them raised signs reading: “I support Palestine Action.”
British police announced the arrest of 117 people on suspicion of declaring their support for a banned group during a protest in front of the Royal Courts of Justice in London.
“Politicized decision”
The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) said that the British Court of Appeal’s support for banning “Palestine Action” is a politicized decision under pressure from Zionist groups.
The movement explained that “the decision came with the aim of persecuting and intimidating any action that supports Palestinian rights and denounces the genocide committed by the Zionist occupation army against our Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.”
She stressed that the decision is “a desperate attempt to silence the voices supporting the Palestinian right, and rejecting the complicity of their country’s governments with the fascist Zionist entity in its aggression against our people, as part of the official European situation that is pursuing some of its countries who support the Palestinian right.”
The Hamas movement called on the peoples of the world not to give in to attempts to silence their free speech, to continue their solidarity movement with the Palestinian people, and to activate comprehensive boycott campaigns against the occupation and its supporters.
