U.K. Use of Terrorist Laws Against Palestine Action Is Serious Mistake

The British activist group activist in the United Kingdom has now been banned after the Supreme Court judge refused to submit a request for temporary satisfaction, following the approval of the vote in parliament that prohibits the group as a terrorist organization.

This means that expressing the support of the group has become a criminal crime, which is a theory punishable by imprisonment for up to 14 years. The 83 -year -old deputy was one of the individuals who were arrested in the protests to support the group that was now developed.

The British Activist group in the United Kingdom has now been banned after the Supreme Court judge to reject To grant a request for temporary relief, after the voting is approved Parliament Which banned the group as a terrorist organization.

This means that expressing the support of the group has become a criminal crime, which is a theory punishable by imprisonment for up to 14 years. and 83 -year -old deputy It was one of many Individual He was arrested in protests to support the group that has now been ranked.

I am a Middle East war correspondent and political commentator and has a long time date To support expansion of privileges in the UK. However, I personally consider the claim that this decision in the public interest is ridiculous and its height.

Palestine work is not now, nor was it, a terrorist organization. The government of the Labor Party government explains its failure to deal appropriately with the problem posed by the group. The abandonment of terrorism will have permanent consequences for law enforcement, combating terrorism, and national security.

To be clear, this is not a defense of work Palestine or its methods, nor I am I agree with the critics who have argued that the Palestinian action is precisely.NonviolenceThe protest group. Police officers were Take back with heavy And other weapons during the procedure carried out by the organization that was now described in Bristol in August 2024.

A more modern action taken by the group in late June in the Royal Air Force break into The military airport and caused damage to the value of millions of pounds for two Voyager aircraft, a great embarrassment for the Royal Air Force and the British government. Interior Minister Evit Cooper was right in Scrutinize These activities “meet the threshold stipulated in the legal tests that were created under Terrorism Law 2000“Because they represent” danger “. The question is whether this danger is dangerous enough to dispense with the defense.

Using the nuclear option to celebrate in this case is a mistake. Not every group prohibited under the law of terrorism in British law needs to be dangerous like al -Qaeda or the Islamic State, or severe like local terrorist organizations such as national action. Palestinian action, despite its criminal activities, is still less than the definition of terrorism as it is in British law.

It was a fully -high set of banning. Its previous British governments have painful On investigation and justification, with David Cameron’s failure to ban the extremist, although he is not violent, Islamic Group HIZB UT-Tahrir During his time as prime minister, despite his threats to do so, although the organization was eventually banned in 2024. It took decades to prove Hezbollah in the end, and the British state did not prohibit the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and the Iranian Armed Forces branch that coordinates terrorism throughout the Middle East, and was linked to many enachers terrorist The plots in Britain that pass through the courts.

Palestine’s campaigns preceded the current conflict in Israel, Hamas in Gaza. The group dates back to 2020, when the Elbit Systems group targeted an Israeli military technology contractor running 16 different locations across the United Kingdom with an export license granted by the British government.

Any campaign must be judged based on its advantages, and without the support of Palestine violence against police officers or attacks on Israeli charities, the government must realize that anger towards supporting the Israeli and British army is both both and defends completely different motives for terrorism.

It is useful here that the environmental group is just stopping oil, which regularly participated in criminal damage in seeking to achieve the goals with which the wider British public sympathizes. They did not prevent them from any claim or threat to prosecute only to stop oil activists from direct work, but the UK decision end New oil and gas licenses in the North Sea did.

The British state should not satisfy the demands of any random active group, but the government of the Labor Party claims to be committed to a green agenda and oppose Israel’s actions in the occupied Palestinian territories. There are fundamental political proposals that the government can enact tomorrow – such as the prohibition of export licenses for Israeli military contractors – which will make the action of Palestine ancient overnight without risk alleviating British anti -terrorism legislation. One of the first actions that the action government has pledged to have a foreign policy comment Among the 30 weapons licenses to Israel, a great break in the Conservative Party policy publicly supporting Israel in Gaza.

Because South Africa issue Israel’s accusation of the crime of genocide continues in the International Court of Justice, which is the legal audit behind the actions of the British state regarding its relationship with Israel, will only increase. the government position After reviewing the export of the last weapons, do not go away enough to defend them from the assistance in the Israeli military atrocities actively.

Palestine work is not a wonderful group. While the Syrian paramedics and medical facilities were targeted in a Russian bombing campaign and a system that included the use of chemical weapons, Hoda Amiuri – the founder of Palestine – was participating in Conspiracy theories Purchasing Russian conspiracy theories about Syrian rescue workers, as they were targeting systematically in Russian air strikes. These are not people who should be able to demand the high moral reasons for the Labor Party government.

But instead of prosecuting individual activists due to criminal damage or other charges, the government actually handed over a tremendous moral victory using severe measures. All the good intentions with goodwill that faces a Drakone punishment to clarify a sign not only make fun of justice, but also to define terrorism itself.

It will be difficult for the government to play a turn that affects the need in this procedure. Legal challenges can ultimately provide a way to come out with grace. However, this is a circumference separation of the young labor government, and it may put a precedent to target other direct protest groups. This would undermine the very dangerous need for strong legislation to combat terrorism in the United Kingdom. Palestinian action is not simply in the same basket as groups, such as Hezbollah, which actively sought the death of British citizens.

But even if it is foolishly insisting on maintaining Palestine’s work on this list, the UK government can still remove criminal work drivers. By reflecting the permits of the remaining Israeli weapons export and suspending the activities of groups such as Elbit in the United Kingdom, the Labor Party can disturb the public anger – and prevent itself from being exposed to Israeli military avoidance in Gaza, the West Bank and the broader Middle East.