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6%
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Huda Ammori, activist and co-founder of the group, launched the legal battle following the Government’s decision to ban the group under anti-terrorism laws.
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Ammori → launch → laws
Before the hearing started on Wednesday morning, a group of demonstrators assembled outside the central London court, with police officers seen carrying several people away into nearby vans.
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officers → start → vans
Demonstrators were seen holding placards with the words: “God help us authors who support Palestine and Palestine Action”, aping the words of Sarah Helm, the wife of a national security adviser who posted the statement on X in October.
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who → see → October
Protesters inserted different words instead of “authors” on their signs, including “normal people”, “students” and “sons of Holocaust survivors”.
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Protesters → insert → survivors
He told the Press Association that he hoped the ban on Palestine Action was dropped, adding: “You can see the chilling effect it’s had.
“I think it’s part of a wider erosion of rights of protest, which is fundamental to a democracy.
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which → tell → democracy
People don’t even feel safe enough to come out and say that.”
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People → feel → that
In written submissions in court, Raza Husain KC, for Ms Ammori, argued that only three of the 385 actions carried out by Palestine Action over a five-year period were assessed as meeting the definition of terrorism under part of the Terrorism Act.
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three → write → Act
He continued: “This was solely on the basis that they involved ‘serious damage to property’.
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they → continue → property
“In other words, the Home Secretary’s advisers assessed that less than 1% of Palestine Action’s direct action protest activities over five years fell within a definition of terrorism.”
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% → assess → terrorism
Mr Husain added that the ban has led to “the total destruction of a protest group which enjoyed widespread support from across civil society”.
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which → add → society
The case came to the Supreme Court after Ms Ammori challenged then-home secretary Yvette Cooper’s 2025 decision to ban the group at the High Court, with three judges finding in February that it was unlawful.
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it → come → February
In further written submissions, Sir James Eadie KC, for the Home Office, said the Court of Appeal had rejected Ms Ammori’s attempt to portray Palestine Action as a “non-violent direct action protest group”.
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Court → write → group
He added that the group’s ban does not prevent public support for Palestine or opposition to Israel and the Israel Defence Forces, and that there are still “vocal large-scale and frequent expressions of support for the pro-Palestinian cause” with only direct support of Palestine Action restricted.
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support → add → Action
In written submissions on behalf of the Community Security Trust and the Jewish Leadership Council, Adam Wagner KC said the UK Jewish community is “especially vulnerable to Palestine Action’s violent activities” as activists had attacked “Jewish charities and Jewish-owned businesses”.
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activists → write → charities
He said lifting the proscription would “re-arm and revitalise a sinister and dangerous movement” and could serve as a “green light” for perpetrators of “violent antisemitism more broadly”.
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lifting → say → antisemitism
The hearing, before Lords Reed, Sales, Lloyd-Jones, Briggs and Stephens, is to last two days, with a decision expected at a later date.
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decision → last → date
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