Cooper defends Palestine Action ban despite court ruling it was unlawful – UK politics live

High court said the then home secretary had not followed her own policies when bringing in the ban last summerHuda Ammori, a co-founder of Palestine Action, who brought the high court challenge, called it a “monumental victory”. She said on Friday:We were banned because Palestine Action’s disruption of Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer, Elbit Systems, cost the corporation millions of pounds in profits and to lose out on multibillion-pound contracts.We’ve used the same tactics as direct action organisations throughout history, including anti-war groups Keir Starmer defended in court, and the government acknowledged in these legal proceedings that this ban was based on property damage, not violence against people. Continue reading...