London’s High Court hears legal challenge to UK’s ban on Palestine Action
London’s High Court will hear the legal challenge posed against the UK’s ban on Palestine Action.
British lawmakers decided to label Palestine Action as a terrorist organization this week, in response to its activists breaking into a military base and damaging two planes in protest to Britain’s support for the ongoing Israeli atrocities in the Gaza Strip.
Designating the group as a terrorist organization would officially make it a crime for British subjects to support or belong to the group.
Pro-Palestinian author and co-founder of Palestine Action, Huda Ammori, took legal action at London’s High Court on Friday to temporarily block the UK Government from banning the group, pausing the proscription.
Ammori's lawyer Raza Husain told London’s High Court: “This is the first time in our history that a direct action, civil disobedience group which does not advocate for violence has been sought to be proscribed as terrorists.”
Husain described the government’s decision as “an ill-considered, discriminatory, authoritarian abuse of statutory power that is alien to the basic tradition of the common law”.
Banning Palestine Action as a terror group would be “ill-considered” and an “authoritarian abuse” of power, the High Court has been told.
Meanwhile, British Home Office is opposing bids to delay the ban from becoming law, and the potential launch of a legal challenge against the decision.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper’s decision to proscribe Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act has been the source of much consternation for many who support the Palestinian cause here in the UK.
British MPs have voted by a majority to designate Direct Action Group, Palestine Action, as a terrorist organization.
The decision came after two activists broke into a military base in central England, sprayed red paint into military aircraft engines, reportedly damaging the aircraft using crowbars.
The legislation will now have to go through the House of Lords before the interior minister signs it into law.
Opponents of the legislation say the decision to proscribe the group has very serious ramifications for issues of civil disobedience, the right to dissent and its potential meaning for other groups in the UK.
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