Oppose the proscription of Palestine Action
Posted: 23rd June 2025
Today the Home Secretary formally announced plans to proscribe the non-violent direct action group Palestine Action as terrorists. This proposal is a part of a wider crackdown on those protesting for Palestinian rights, and it must be opposed!
Tell your MP to oppose these plansPalestine Action has taken non-violent direct action in an attempt to interrupt British support for Israel’s genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people. They have never advocated violence against people, making the government’s plans to proscribe them both absurd and dangerous.
There is a long and noble tradition of the use of direct action by protest movements that includes the Suffragettes, the movement against apartheid in South Africa, and peace and anti-war campaigners. Where non-violent direct action involves law-breaking, those who take such action do so in the knowledge that they may face prosecution, but have the right to justify their civil disobedience to a court. Even those who reject such methods should recognise that to falsely brand acts of this kind as terrorism would be a grotesque move designed to suppress political protest.
Tell your MP to reject this crackdownThe British government is still selling arms – including F-35 fighter jet components – to Israel, a regime that is currently on trial for genocide at the International Court of Justice, has already been found guilty of the crime of apartheid, and which is led by Benjamin Netanyahu, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity. It is disgraceful that it falls to ordinary citizens to do what they can to try to end this shameful complicity in Israel’s ongoing atrocities against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
PSC believes in the need to build a truly mass movement rooted in all of our communities and use a wide range of tactics to bring about political change. While we have a different strategy to Palestine Action, we utterly reject this attempt to brand those using non-violent direct action to try and stop a genocide as terrorists, and we need to oppose it urgently.
Our core focus must remain on our campaigns to end the genocide. The government’s crackdown on protest, whether it is our large demonstrations or Palestine Action’s activities, is designed to silence and distract us. We can’t let that happen.
Write your MP today, and please keep up with your campaigning for Palestine.
In Solidarity,
Ryvka,
Deputy Director, PSC