UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule

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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/feb/13/uk-ban-palestine-action-unlawful-high-court-judges-rule

Does this mean people will no longer be arrested for holding up a sign saying “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action”?

I wrote to my Pro Pal Labour MP in the aftermath of the vote and she certainly didn't think it was 'silly of them' to vote for the proscription. She sent me a detailed response to my letter, so belittling the government as you are doing helps no-one.

Why is it 2,000 people (including pensioners and disabled) are on remand for protesting this genocide but 2,000 British IDF citizens are not arrested for committing this genocide? (Genocide admitted by British government)

Because no legally binding finding of genocide has been made.

And the current position of the uk government is that the war in Gaza was not a genocide.

There is no such thing as an IDF citizen. What a ridiculous thing to say. This whole post is nonsense. Genocide has not been admitted by the government and even they had said they thought Israel had committed genocide that would not give them the right to arrest people and you would arrest every soldier in the IDF anyway. The government has explicitly said that it has not concluded that Israel is committing genocide.

Would NOT arrest of course.

Except that they know that war crimes have been carried out by the IDF and the state of Israel against the Palestinians.

Presumably those 2000 are currently in Israel and any crimes they may have committed would not be on UK soil, so how and why would the UK police arrest them?

Every war has war crimes.

There is no genocide. Just repeating the word doesn’t make it true.

War crimes are not genocide are they though? Language matters.

Don't bring your dispassionate logic here please. 😉

It IS a genocide. Just because the government is too spineless to call it that, doesn't mean it isn't.

War criminals are still war criminals. Why is our government not investigating IDF soldiers who have taken part? But want to jail innocent people for holding up a placard.

Do you think our government should be investigating possible Russian war criminals? Ukranian war criminals? Sudanese? Why should our government be investigating crimes taking place outside of its jurisdiction? Which person do you believe is a war criminal? Or do you think anyone who fights in the IDF should automatically be investigated? By whom? What evidence are you bringing? Or is it just that you have a blanket hatred for the IDF, individuals be damned. Shall we just try all of them?

Yes, i do believe that anyone who has come back after actively taking part in a war in a foreign country, should be questioned about their role in that war/genocide on return.

Well @Tackthat I didn't see you commenting on the recent thread about the man abusing his wife... do you have no opinion about that? 🙄

All of the soldiers we sent to Afghanistan? Iraq? You want to question all of them in case they've commited a crime? Or just Jewish ones? Who do you think should be questioning them? Military or civil courts? Perhaps you'd like them to face a panel of mumsnetters?

Taking part in a war in a foreign country. That's not talking British soldiers is it??

So Palestine Action has "carried out acts of terrorism, celebrated those who have taken part in those acts and promoted the use of violence" but this isn't enough for them to be declared a terrorist group because there were only a few acts of terrorism.

Conclusion: We should allow them to do more terrorism.

So you think fighting for any foreign army in any conflict should be an explicit crime? Even for dual nationals who are subject to conscription?

Also you said you want 2000 British-Israeli nationals to be arrested. But I doubt all or even mostnof them have come back to the UK since.

@mnhqHow is this post allowed to stand, yet my post calling it out was deleted?

You want them to delete a factual post?