For several years now the group ‘Palestine Action’ have been destroying public and private property and occasionally allegedly been involved in violence against the person in their campaign to harass people and companies into not working with Israel. They’ve put people in fear of their lives, disrupted business and most recently have broken into Brize Norton, one of Britain’s major Royal Air Force bases and done significant damage to aircraft leaving the taxpayer with a bill for hundreds of thousands of pounds and removed from use military assets that might be needed for the purpose of defending the realm. Palestine Action are also closely connected to those who support Islamic terror groups such as Hamas which are banned from operating in the United Kingdom.
As someone who came of age reading tales of Mahatma Gandhi’s campaign of non-violent direct action (NVDA) to free India from British rule and George Lansbury’s rate revolt in Poplar in East London I can understand somewhat the mindset of those who undertake NVDA even if I do not agree with the causes they are supporting. However what Palestine Action have done goes way way beyond what NVDA should be. They’ve caused immense financial loss to companies, endangered Britain’s security and have shown that they are prone to violence against the person. Those associated with Palestine Action have trashed Jewish owned businesses and been part of the continual hate marches that have scarred London and other major cities. Palestine Action’s ambivalence bordering on tacit support for some of the most bestial Jihad groups in the world such as Hamas are also a matter of concern.
Even though I am somewhat of a free speech fundamentalist I find myself in vehement disagreement with Luke Gittos of Spiked Magazine who has claimed that proscription of Palestine Action will harm freedom of speech. Those who are aligned to the views of Palestine Action have had significant opportunity to voice their views and have done so and done so aggressively ever since the 7/10 Pogrom occurred in 2023. In many cases those protesting for the destruction of Israel and the mass murder of Jews on London’s streets have been actively assisted by the city’s Metropolitan Police. The Met have treated the Jew hate mob with the sort of kid glove policing that is rarely to be seen when the demonstrators are from the political Right or who are self described Patriots. Proscribing Palestine Action will not affect the rights of Jew hating nutcases to campaign for ‘Palestine’ but it will be a move against an entity that is becoming increasingly violent and which I believe is but a few steps away from serious political violence aimed at people as well as property. Also attacking British military assets in support for a foreign terrorist entity is a universe away in seriousness from the political vandalism carried out by the likes of the Bladerunners in London who allegedly do harm to the increasingly hated ULEZ cameras that are dotted about the city. Whatever else might be said to be negative regarding the Bladerunners group at least they are not supporting the murderous bastards of Hamas.
Based on what I know about the reluctance of the Establishment to take action against Left aligned groups I very much doubt that the decision to proscribe Palestine Action would have been taken because of the Brize Norton incident alone. Palestine Action have clocked up a whole load of political vandalism, racialist vandalism, violence and incitement before we even got to the stage where Palestine Action were attacking British military aircraft. There could also be intelligence that the public has not seen yet (or might not see at all because of how it might have been gathered) that gives strength to the arguments for proscription. Palestine Action might be, for all we know, just a few steps away from committing an IRA style atrocity so deranged with Jew hatred have members and associates of this group become.
I believe that proscription is a law enforcement tool that should be used exceedingly sparingly by any society that wants to call itself ‘free’. So far the hammer of proscription has been aimed at the violent nutjob neo-Nazis of National Action, Basque separatists, some German and American neo-Nazis, Hamas, a Greek Communist terror group and as expected a whole host of violent Islamic groups. From what I’ve seen, heard and read about Palestine Action, they would fit in very well with some of the groups on the Governments list of proscribed organisations. Palestine Action are the pro-’Palestine’ movement’s Brownshirts, eager for violence and destruction for their own political ends even if their actions do end up making the UK much more unsafe.
I must admit that I’m uneasy about the whole idea of proscription as even the worst of the worst should be able to speak but having perused the Government list of nutjobs, jihadists, crazy Communists and violent separatists that make up the current banned list even I have to admit that sometimes proscription might be a justifiable last resort action for a government to take.
I do expect that this proscription decision to be challenged in the courts possibly with the assistance of those members of parliament such as Zarah Sultana who have recently publicly aligned themselves with the Palestine Action group. I don’t expect Palestine Action to disappear overnight just as support for Hamas hasn’t disappeared from our streets and from some of Britain’s mosques, but this might represent a hardening of the government’s heart towards a ‘Palestine’ movement that has disgraced itself with racialist hatred and support for some of the worst terrorist savages on the planet.
Links
UK Government organisation proscription list
Spiked article by Luke Gittos
https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/06/24/no-palestine-action-is-not-a-terror-group/