Claims extracted
18
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
6%
1 of 18 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
withheld
no quote in the article backed the model's score
Publisher signals
66/100
The Guardian's corrections and
hedging, across everything collected from it. Not a measure of accuracy.
Outlets on this story
7
Politics
Same framing elsewhere
1
articles that frame the event the way this one does
Palestine Action was banned as a terrorist group after using tactics similar to – or less extreme than – the suffragettes, the UK’s highest court has heard.
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court → ban → suffragettes
Huda Ammori, a co-founder of Palestine Action, is challenging last year’s decision to proscribe the direct action organisation, placing it alongside groups such as al-Qaida and Boko Haram.
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Ammori → challenge → Qaida
On the first day of the supreme court hearing in central London, Raza Husain KC, representing Ammori, told the five judges: “Palestine Action never advocated for violence against the person and the home secretary has never advocated – and could not advocate – to the contrary.
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secretary → represent → contrary
“The uncontroverted evidence shows moreover that [the] suffragettes, anti-war groups, environmental groups, animal rights protesters all used tactics similar to or more extreme than Palestine Action yet they were not regarded as terrorists or proscribed.”
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they → show → terrorists
He said the suffragettes’ activities included arson and bombing attacks but they were now venerated as being on the right side of history.
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they → say → history
The court of appeal had erred by saying that Palestine Action’s tactics had “little or nothing in common with the suffragettes … or Iraq war protest groups”, Husain told the court.
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Husain → err → court
Ammori has argued that proscription represents a disproportionate interference with the rights to freedom of speech and protest.
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proscription → argue → speech
Husain said the ban had affected the entire Palestinian solidarity movement, regardless of any connection with Palestine Action, and chilled the expression of journalists, academics and artists.
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ban → say → journalists
In written submissions for the home secretary, Sir James Eadie KC said the court of appeal’s decision – against which Ammori is appealing – was lawful and proportionate and had been reinforced in two ways.
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Ammori → write → ways
He cited the convictions (including one for grievous bodily harm) of four people and the finding of a “terrorist connection” in the case of the Palestine Action activist’s raid on a factory owned by the Israeli arms company Elbit Systems in Filton, near Bristol.
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He → cite → Bristol
It was also reinforced by US sanctions imposed on Palestine Action as a global terrorist group, said Eadie.
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Eadie → reinforce → group
“As a matter of law, the proscription of PA [Palestine Action] does not prevent public expressions of support for the Palestinian cause or opposition to Israel and to the Israel Defense Forces, or demonstrations targeted at Elbit,” he said.
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he → prevent → Elbit
Sir Jonathan Porritt, a former director of Friends of the Earth, who was an adviser to the Prince of Wales – now King Charles – for more than 30 years was among at least 25 protesters arrested outside the court on Wednesday.
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who → arrest → Wednesday
They held placards emulating a tweet by Sarah Helm, the wife of the prime minister’s national security adviser, which the police deemed not to meet the criminal threshold for supporting a terrorist organisation.
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police → hold → organisation
Helm, a journalist and author who is married to Jonathan Powell, wrote: “God help us authors who support Palestine and Palestine Action.”
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who → write → Palestine
Porritt replaced the word “authors” with “CBEs” while others swapped it with “normal people”, “professors”, “Jews”, “holocaust survivors”, and “bartenders”.
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others → replace → people
The last protester to be arrested held a placard reading: “God help us who are not married to the UK’s national security adviser who support Palestine and Palestine Action.”
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who → arrest → Palestine
The court case is due to conclude on Thursday with judgment expected at a later date.
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case → conclude → date
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