The Court of Appeal has ruled in favour of home secretary Shabana Mahmood’s appeal against the High Court’s ruling that the ‘terrorism’ ban on Palestine Action was unlawful. The appeals court decided that the ban was a proportionate infringement on UK human rights and did not exceed the government’s powers.

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The judge reading out the decision based this judgment on the home secretary being better placed than the courts to decide what was needed – an anti-judicial coup carried out by judges, effectively. The interference of pro-Israel groups in the decision to ban the direct action group was ignored. The judge also denied that Palestine Action is comparable to the suffragettes because it used secrecy and carried out serious damage.

The suffragettes threw bombs and sent letter bombs. The dismissal of the point that the suffragettes used worse tactics and are now lauded goes a long way to illustrating today’s judgement.

Palestine Action remains a banned organisation. UK free speech and protest rights have been slashed by a corrupt government to protect Israel and the appeal court has, unsurprisingly, colluded in it.

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