Palestine Action Banned as Terrorist Organisation
Palestine Action is to be proscribed as a terrorist organisation alongside Hamas, al-Qaeda and Islamic State after its activists damaged two RAF planes at an air base. The Telegraph has more.
The organisation will be added to the list of banned groups alongside Hamas, al-Qaeda and Islamic State after its activists broke into RAF Brize Norton and sprayed red paint into the engines of two Airbus Voyager aircraft.
The move means that it will be illegal to be a member of the group, to invite support for it or to wear clothing or carry flags or placards backing it. Anyone caught doing so will face up to 14 years in jail.
The Government will have to lay an order in Parliament with a vote by both Houses before the ban can take force.
It is expected that Ministers will set out their plans in a written statement to Parliament on Monday.
Proscription means that Palestine Action’s assets and money can be seized. Sources said that its ability to operate openly in the UK will be “significantly degraded” because of the offences attached to membership and inviting support.
Hizb ut-Tahrir was the most recent organisation to be proscribed in January 2024 by James Cleverly, then then home secretary, after its members were accused of praising and celebrating Hamas’s terrorist attack on Israel on October 7th.
Counter-terror police are leading an investigation into the incident at RAF Brize Norton.
Footage posted online by Palestine Action on Friday morning showed two people inside the air base in Oxfordshire.
The clip shows one person riding an electric scooter up to an Airbus Voyager air-to-air refuelling tanker and appearing to spray paint into its jet engine.
A spokesman for Counter Terror Policing South East said: “An incident at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire is now being investigated by officers from Counter Terrorism Policing South East.
“In the early hours of today (20/6) offenders gained entry to the site and caused criminal damage to aircraft.
“Specialist counter terrorism officers are working closely with officers from Thames Valley Police and the Ministry of Defence Police.”
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: It turns out the RAF base’s only defence against Palestine Action was a 6ft wooden fence. Oh dear.
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So will Palestine Action’s Membership Secretary hand in the list of paid-up members; and does it have any assets in its own name? Does it actually have “legal personality”?
Doesn’t change the excruciating humiliation ti any patriotic englishman of seeing what our pathetic government allowed them to do.
Personally hanging drawing and quartering would seem appropriate for all involved.
As this could be considered an act of war – damaging our strategic assets, attacking the RAF’s ability to defend us – I think they should have been shot
Hang on a minute.
Aren’t some of the pro-Palestine marchers carry pro-Hamas placards and shout pro-Hamas slogans?
I have never been anywhere near these marches but just looking at some of the pictures I had a distinct impression that this was done in the full presence of the police.
Yes and as the piece says alongside “…the list of banned groups alongside Hamas’ against which the police seem to have been partial in encouraging those who have protested in support of that proscribed group and only arrested those who might cause those of that banned group who might take Offenes!
After I received a Notice of Intended Prosecution for going through a traffic light ONE SECOND too late, I wrote to the Met Police Camera Services asking them to review this and detailing what I thought were extenuating circumstance but was told that police were “satisfied” with the evidence that an offence had been committed. When I wrote back saying how delighted I was that police were paying such close attention to my “crime” that I assumed it was a simple oversight that Saturday afternoon protestors were not being arrested and charged for committing even more serious criminal offences on the streets of London. When I didn’t receive a reply to my letter, I wrote again, pointing out their slip in not providing a reply, enclosing a copy of my letter. Eventually I received a reply – still not agreeing to waive my Notice of Intended Prosecution or the alternative of having to attend a “re-education” course at the cost of £90 – something chillingly Orwellian about the “re-education” part of that – but I did force them to provide an answer and I hope I had made my point.
It will be interesting to see who now wriggles out of the earth to defend these people in court? And who pays for their defence?
That’s sure to work. If only we had known before now that banning terrorists stopped terrorism…
This is a distraction. What should be happening is those responsible for security of our military installations, starting with the Minister. should be fired.
“This is a distraction.” Absolutely.
Cue some Palestine Action. 😀😀😀
Why are we not surprised to learn about yet another branch of government that does not work. Why had they not got:
multiple layers of defence
high metal fences with sharp anti climb features
cctv
pir alarms
protective perimeter around the aircraft (and fuel and spares and control tower and command centre)
patrols
The reason: no one cares and 2 per cent of GDP doesn’t cover airport security as well as LGTetc within the MoD.
Like many almost unbelievable events occurring these days it is difficult not to wonder if this isn’t a set up.
“The Government will have to lay an order in Parliament with a vote by both Houses before the ban can take force.”
However, until such time as Kneel can be arsed to get round to banning another Palestinian terrorist organisation we will have to make do with prosecuting any further outbreaks of naughtiness on grounds of incitement likely to cause hurty feelings which will carry a maximum sentence of life followed by deportation.
The obstacles to action are simply amazing when there is no intention to act.
Wow— shocking photo where the barbed wire ends. Good find!
“A picture paints a thousand words”.
So Starmer claims that “The Government will have to lay an order in Parliament with a vote by both Houses before the ban can take force.” Delay, Delay, Delay.
And yet somehow he is allowed to hand over a strategically important chunk of British Territory to a Foreign Power whenever he pleases, to issue orders commanding the Judiciary to throw citizens into prison for years just for a tweet, to ban a French Patriot who has committed no crime from entering the UK, to collude with a Foreign Power to undermine the Brexit Referendum Vote, and send British troops off to be maimed and killed in a Foreign War, without consulting Parliament at all ???
Well said, absolutely shameful
In the meantime the RAF have had a bad press re security. Probably easier to get in to Brize Norton than the Glastonbury Festival at present. Slightly off topic, I wonder if there is a risk to the Royal International Air Tattoo at Fairford this year? As many will know, it’s just up the road from Brize Norton.
I’ve been to one of those years ago, on an occasion when a pair of Russians on display crashed head to head in a couple of MIG29s. No Russians this year, no doubt, but wouldn’t be surprised if Trump grabs hold of it. After all, they bombed Baghdad from there in the Iraq war.
How can al-Qaeda and Islamic State (ISIS) be banned when the CIA and MI6 have been funding them in Syria all these years? And it was only a couple of weeks ago that Donald Trump was meeting and congratulating Al Jolani (their leader) for his ‘strength’ – the same guy that was the most wanted terrorist of the world ($10 million reward) a week or two earlier.
Don’t say anything remotely sensible on here.
Most are just racists (yes, wipe out all inhabitants of Palestine and that’s ok) and/or too stupid to realise they’ve been propagandised since the end of WW2.
Meanwhile, whilst the MSM concentrates on Iran, the IDF carries on with it’s ethnic cleansing/genocide. Has anyone here looked at what Gaza looks like now? 56,000 dead – and that’s not counting those buried under the rubble.
Do you really want this site to become an echo chamber?
Kudos to TY to actually allow dissenting voices, but for goodness sake,let’s have some coherent arguments as to why dissenters re Israel and similar, are wholly wrong?
No, let’s have some coherent arguments as to why our own governments are importing A MUSLIM ARMY into the West, inserting it into every nook and cranny of our nations, forcing the Taxpayers to lavish money upon them and build new houses for them, allowing them to ogle and sexually harass our women & children on the streets of their own ancestral homeland, allowing them to rape and murder our people, while awaiting the signal to ATTACK THE DISARMED POPULATION.
Let’s talk about the catastrophe that is Mass Immigration from the Third World, that has brought nothing but destruction and disaster to the West, instead of whining about foreign wars that have nothing to do with us.
Why European governments import so many ‘refugees’ of all religions into their countries must be clear by now: to destabilize civil order and bring economic ruin. Vernon Coleman, among many others, has been arguing the point for a long time (see, for example, https://expose-news.com/2025/06/19/the-depopulation-plan/) that there is a “plan to reduce the world’s population” by means of “the global warming myth, massive immigration, the end of medicine, the destruction of farming and economies, and wars”. The Netherlands threw out their Prime Minister, Mark Rutte, after he did his best to demolish Dutch farming and set up a mega-city in the Netherlands, spanning multiple neighbouring countries. He was a typical neocon and WEF admirer, so after his demise he was ‘promoted’ to become head of NATO. It must surely be clear by now that there are very dubious forces dictating global actions to the heads of European governments. Why the latter pay them any attention I do not know but the actions you decry are all openly performed by the mother of all democracies (supposedly). So, you have a problem with our democracy? But foreign wars in which we participate (e.g. RAF flying recce flights over Gaza) should certainly be discussed… Read more »
I agree with all but your last three paragraphs, which are treasonous propaganda.
It has NEVER BEEN the ordinary Ethnic European citizens of the West who have started any of those wars. It is OUR GLOBALIST GOVERNMENTS who have persuaded and brainwashed us into allowing our own warriors to be sent to be maimed and slain in FOREIGN WARS that have NOTHING TO DO WITH US.
You and Sforezca seem utterly obsessed with FOREIGN WARS that have NOTHING TO DO WITH US, and you both seem unable to grasp the fact that WE DON’T HAVE TO CARE what happens in these FOREIGN WARS that were NOT of our own making !!!
You often went on & on with Zelensky Bot Monro about the Russia-Ukraine Meatgrinder War, and now this Israel-Gaza War, and seem upset that WE DON’T CARE about them, and you keep trying to lay a guilt trip upon us for NOT CARING. Have you ever heard of something called “Compassion Fatigue”?
WE CARE ABOUT SAVING OUR OWN PEOPLE AND CIVILIZATION FROM ABSOLUTE DESTRUCTION.
THAT is what is most important to us.
You are welcome to explain why you class my 3 paragraphs above as “treasonous propaganda”: please point out any errors.
If you do not wish to comment on foreign wars then feel free not to do so but I do consider such matters to be important and, as such, worthy of commentary.
You are very welcome to save our civilization from absolute destruction, whereby a civilization without concern and feeling for others is not worth saving, in my opinion.
You obviously have little experience of the Third World Ethnic groups who comprise 93% of all the people on the planet.
If you did, you would come to realize that they have many excellent qualities, but COMPASSION IS NOT ONE OF THEM.
The most Compassionate People on the Planet are ETHNIC EUROPEANS, whose compassion has been used against them to destroy them, draining away their very lifeblood.
I don’t know if Ethnic Europeans will wake up to this in time to save themselves.
Gaza is now in a “stage of mass death” (https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/gaza-now-stage-mass-death) and your ’official’ but old 56,000 count is certainly way too low.
One can only hope that Israel is so knocked about by Iran that somehow food does get through to the Palestinians. It is the case that Israel has removed troops from Gaza in order to assist in their fight against Iran (and dig out Israeli’s buried citizens).
But you are sadly right, I have no idea why so many on this website are clearly influenced by Israeli propaganda. And what will they say if Israel achieves its goal and 2.3 million Palestinians are killed or starved to death?
No, we are not “clearly influenced by Israeli propaganda”, as you say.
WE DON’T CARE ONE WAY OR ANOTHER WHO WINS THAT WAR.
We are NOT THE WORLD’S POLICEMAN.
Identification, confiscation of property, if it exists. Full sentence with no remission and the hunting down of the rest of these misfits, That is if starmer’s got the neck for it.
One may suspect that the UK government’s terrorism policies are less about fairness and more about political expediency. Consider Mohammad Ghazi al-Jalali, Syria’s caretaker PM since December 2024, propped up by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a jihadist group banned in the UK since 2017 for its al-Qaeda roots and violent campaign, including bombings and executions, as detailed in government records. HTS’s death toll runs high, yet the Foreign Office champions a “stable” Syria, channels aid to HTS-controlled regions, and engages diplomatically with the transitional setup, per reports from Reuters and similar outlets. This treads close to violating the Terrorism Act 2000, which bars support for proscribed groups. It’s hard not to wonder if geopolitical chess—countering Russia and Iran—outweighs legal consistency. Now, contrast this with Palestine Action, branded terrorists on June 19, 2025, for targeting arms firms like Elbit Systems, linked to Israel. Their record? Vandalism, blockades, and 121 arrests, but no deaths or injuries, as BBC reports confirm. Yvette Cooper’s Home Office cites “violent extremism,” likely spurred by defence industry pressure and pro-Israel voices amid Gaza tensions. So, HTS’s bloodshed gets a diplomatic pass, but paint-throwing earns jail time? One might speculate the UK prioritises economic allies over even-handedness.This feels… Read more »
Diplomatic pragmatism, a cynic might observe.
When you meekly acquiesce to thousands of Hamas-supporting anti-Semites parading through the streets of London on a weekly basis (and you rely on the Muslim block vote) this is the kind of “activism” you encourage.
Two-Tier had previously defended an “activist” from Palestinian Action who had committed a similar offence. Apparently the “cab rank” rule for Lawyers struck again but this time amazingly landed with Two-Tier, not Harmer.
Isn’t it strange how every time there is a criminal in the dock for attacking the British State, one of those two happened to be next in line to defend them!