PALESTINE Action can challenge the UK Government’s ban on the organisation at the Supreme Court, it has emerged.
The group, banned under terrorism laws, will be able to take its case to the UK’s highest court in a bid to overturn its proscription.
The Supreme Court's website shows that justices Lord Sales, Lord Leggatt and Lady Simler have given the group's leader permission to argue the case on the basis that then-home secretary Yvette Cooper had incorrectly applied her own policy.
Permission to challenge the decision based on interference with freedom of speech and freedom of association was refused.
The website also stated that the hearing of the challenge would be held between October 1 and December 21.
Palestine Action has been through a lengthy legal process to overturn the Home Office’s ban – which came into force in July 2025 after a break-in at RAF Brize Norton – but has indicated that even the Supreme Court would not be the final stage.
Huda Ammori, the group’s co-founder, said on Thursday that the group would be willing to go all the way to Strasbourg if the Supreme Court bid failed.
Noting that the ruling came on the same day as scores of people were arrested "under terror laws simply for saying that they oppose genocide and support Palestine Action, adding to the more than 3500 arrests to date for this entirely peaceful protest", Ammori said: "This further evidences our case that the proscription of Palestine Action has become a vehicle for a far broader crackdown on expressions of solidarity with the Palestinian people.
“This unprecedented attack on free speech and the right to protest in this country is already having a chilling effect at a time when speaking out about Israel’s crimes could not be more urgent.
"We will continue to fight this proscription all the way to the Supreme Court and, if necessary, to the European Court of Human Rights to overturn what has become one of the most extreme attacks on free speech and the right to protest in modern British history.”
A previous High Court ruling that the ban was unlawful was overturned last month by the Court of Appeal.
The lower court had ruled on the basis that the ban infringed people’s right to protest.
Proscription makes it a criminal offence to belong to or support Palestine Action – which sits alongside groups like Isis and Al Qaeda – with sentences of up to 14 years in prison.
Wearing items of clothing or holding signs expressing support for the group is also illegal.
Thousands of people across the UK have been arrested in mass protests against the ban, including earlier on Thursday where supporters rallied outside Westminster Magistrates Court in central London.
Hearings had been scheduled to take place for people who had previously flouted the ban but these were postponed at the last minute.
