The UK High Court is set to rule at 10am on whether the Home Office lawfully banned Palestine Action as a terrorist group. The group was proscribed under the Terrorism Act 2000 by then-home secretary Yvette Cooper. This ban started on 5 July 2025 and makes being a member or supporting Palestine Action a crime punishable by up to 14 years in prison. Palestine Action co-founder Huda Ammori took legal action challenging the ban. A lawyer for Ammori called the ban "unlawful," saying the group had followed an "honourable tradition" of direct action and civil disobedience before the proscription. The court heard that more than 2,000 have been arrested since the ban. Those arrested include "priests, teachers, pensioners, retired British Army officers," and an "81-year-old former magistrate." Lawyers for the Home Office argued the ban disrupted Palestine Action’s "pattern of escalatory conduct." They also said the ban "has not prevented people from protesting in favour of the Palestinian people or against Israel’s actions in Gaza." This ruling comes after six Palestine Action activists, including 21-year-old Fatema Rajwani, were last week cleared of aggravated burglary over a break-in at Israeli defence firm Elbit Systems’ UK site. Rajwani said the verdicts "vindicated" their cause and showed the British public does not want citizens criminalized for supporting "a people’s inalienable right to freedom, to dignity, and to self-determination." Keep following this update for the High Court’s decision on this significant ban.