The UK Supreme Court gave Huda Ammori, co-founder of Palestine Action, permission to appeal against the ban on the group on July 30, 2026 [1, 2, 3, 4].
Palestine Action was designated a terrorist organisation by the UK government in July 2025 under the Terrorism Act following a series of direct actions. In June 2025, activists from the group broke into the RAF Brize Norton military base and spray-painted two aircraft, causing £7 million in damage [2, 4]. The government described this incident as the primary reason for the ban [1, 4].
The group’s ban was challenged in court. In February 2026, the High Court ruled the ban was disproportionate and unlawful. However, the Court of Appeal overturned that ruling in June 2026, reinstating the ban [1, 2, 4].
Since the ban, around 3,000 to 3,500 people have been arrested in the UK for alleged support of Palestine Action [1, 2]. Pro-Palestine activists have increasingly targeted Israel-linked defence companies such as Elbit Systems in protests and direct actions [2].
Human rights groups and UN experts have criticised the UK government’s crackdown on protests and called for the ban to be reversed [4]. Ammori said, "We will continue to fight this proscription all the way to the Supreme Court and, if necessary, to the European Court of Human Rights to overturn what has become one of the most extreme attacks on free speech and the right to protest in modern British history" [2]. She added, "We will be arguing in the Supreme Court that the ban is unlawful, as it is disproportionate to free speech and the right to protest. The fight continues" [4].
The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear the appeal in the final quarter of 2026 [1, 4].
