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    Palestine Action can still challenge terror ban after government loses court appeal

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    1. Hopeful_Stay_5276 on

      Whether their proscription is justified or not, it would be an injustice to say an organisation can’t appeal such a proscription.

    3. YouHaveAWomansMouth on

      I just don’t really see why the group needs to be proscribed at all. If its members commit crimes, arrest and try them for those crimes.

      Instead we get situations where police are having to make snap judgements in public that they probably aren’t trained for about whether someone’s t-shirt or placard is near enough to constitute support or not.

      Standard British government approach, Tory or Labour: don’t bother working harder to correctly apply the rules and laws we already have, just make some headline-grabbing, broad-brush new ones that inevitably trip over on the details.

    5. StreamWave190 on

      I mean, obviously?

      On the evidence I’ve seen (and that courts have seen), I support their proscription.

      **But** there obviously needs to be a legal means by which they, or any other group, can challenge that designation so it can be properly heard in a court of law. And that does exist. And actually this verdict is a bit weird in that it seems to legally invalidate the body which already existed to do precisely this.

      And I would add, as always, this point:

      [MI5 identified ‘three separate acts of terrorism’ committed by Palestine Action ahead of ban](https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/mi5-identified-three-separate-acts-of-terrorism-committed-by-palestine-action-ahead-of-ban/)

      >**The UK’s main independent body for assessing and analysing terrorism threats identified THREE separate acts committed by Palestine Action ahead of the government’s decision to proscribe the organisation, Downing Street has confirmed.**

      >Details of the three acts were identified by the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre, which is based within MI5, and have been outlined in full in a closed court, it was confirmed.

      >“Under the terrorism act the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre identified three separate acts of terrorism carried out by Palestine Action activists,” the spokesperson confirmed, who added the “very clear assessment” had been supported by “experts across the police and security services.”