Author: Protest is not terrorism
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Independent MPs Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana, and MEPs Rima Hassan and Marc Botenga have been joined by the Green Party’s Mothin Ali and dozens of Independent and Green candidates and councillors in an appeal to the judge to grant…
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24 April 2026, Addressed to the Court of Appeal: We oppose genocide, we support Palestine Action, Signed: * * * * * This letter is posted on the Defend our Juries website https://defendourjuries.net/lift-the-ban/open-letter/ along with a press release that includes…
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The Metropolitan Police arrested hundreds of people for holding cardboard signs with the words “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action” in Trafalgar Square on 11 April, despite the High Court ruling that the government’s ban on the direct action…
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13 February 2026 Glasgow TUC welcomes the striking down of the ban on Palestine Action and today’s decision of the Judicial Review to proscribe the protest group as a terrorist organisation as unlawful. We said it at the time and…
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The decision by the High Court to quash the Home Secretary’s proscription of Palestine Action must have immediate consequences for those who sought to enforce it. Thousands of people have been arrested and dozens had their homes raided and faced…
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Dozens of distinguished scholars and authors from around the world have made a declaration in solidarity with prisoners in the UK whose long detention on remand on charges relating to activism for Palestine has sparked criticism from human rights organisations…
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Dozens of members of the national executive committees of the UK’s education unions NEU, UCU and EIS representing over 600,000 educators in schools, further education and universities are among 800 educators and trade unionists who have signed an open letter…
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To: Chief Constables, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Crown Prosecution Service As trade unionists and activists in the Palestine solidarity movement and beyond, we stand opposed to genocide and in solidarity with the campaign to reverse the proscription of Palestine…
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Around 1000 people defied calls from Keir Starmer and the Met Police for the suspension of the Defend our Juries protest against the proscription of Palestine Action on Saturday 4 October. Trade unionists from round the country joined hundreds taking…
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As the organisers of the trade union delegation to the Witness Circle at the Lift the Ban action on 4 October, we believe that Defend our Juries is right to highlight the contradictions in the call from the Metropolitan Police…