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The Chilling UK Case Against Palestine Action Lawyer

May 9, 2026 Dania Akkad, Consortium News. , , ,
Contempt of court proceedings against a top human rights barrister are having a “chilling effect” across the British bar, leading lawyers tell Declassified.  Rajiv Menon KC is accused of violating the judge’s orders in the trial of six Palestine Action activists who broke into an Israeli-owned arms factory near Bristol in 2024 at the height of the Gaza genocide. Menon is alleged, in part, to have breached the judge’s direction that lawyers were not permitted in their closing speeches to invite the jury to acquit on the basis of conscience.  The barrister reportedly told the jury about the Bushell case, a landmark ruling from 1670 which established the independence of juries. 

UK Convicts Palestine Action Activists Over Break-In At Israeli Weaponsmaker

May 5, 2026 Al Jazeera. , , , ,
Four of six British pro-Palestinian activists have been convicted of criminal damage relating to a 2024 raid on a factory operated by Israeli defence firm Elbit, with one of the defendants found guilty of striking a police officer with a sledgehammer. London’s Woolwich Crown Court on Tuesday found Charlotte Head, 30, Samuel Corner, 23, Leona Kamio, 30, Fatema Zainab Rajwani, 21, guilty. Zoe Rogers, 22, and Jordan Devlin, 31, were found not guilty. Prosecutors said that the six defendants were members of the banned group Palestine Action, which organised the assault on the Elbit Systems UK facility in Bristol, southwest England, in August 2024.

Palestine Action Defendants Address Jury Directly

May 1, 2026 John McEvoy, Consortium News. , , ,
Five Palestine Action activists dismissed their lawyers this week  and addressed a jury directly about how they targeted an Israeli weapons factory in Bristol. The activists — Charlotte Head, Fatema Zainab Rajwani, Zoe Rogers, Leona Kamio and Jordan Devlin – face charges of criminal damage in connection with a raid on Elbit Systems in August 2024. On Wednesday morning, shortly before closing speeches were due to be heard at Woolwich Crown Court, those five defendants elected to represent themselves rather than be represented by their barristers.

UK Judge Gags Palestine Action Defendants To Secure ‘Terror’ Stitch-Up

April 30, 2026 The Grayzone , , ,
Since the retrial of six Palestine Action (PA) activists began on April 13, the defendants have been barred under court order from using terms like “genocide” or discussing the target of their direction action protests. Meanwhile, supporters of PA have been arrested outside the court for holding signs advising jurors of their right to acquit the defendants based on conscience. Now, a draft court order reviewed by The Grayzone reveals how the presiding judge has sought to comprehensively neutralize the PA activists’ ability to defend themselves by imposing crippling restrictions on what can be said in closing speeches.

132 Academics, Writers And Public Figures Risk Terror Charges

April 25, 2026 The Canary. , , , ,
In an unprecedented action, more than 130 leading scholars and public figures are risking arrest on terror charges after writing an open letter to the Court of Appeal concerning Palestine Action. The letter, dated 24 April 2026, simply reads: We oppose genocide, we support Palestine Action. The words that have become synonymous with the campaign to Lift the Ban. Sally Rooney, Greta Thunberg, and Judith Butler were among the first to put their names to this defiant declaration. Joining them are prominent artists and musicians such as Nadine Shah, Brian Eno, Massive Attack’s Robert Del Naja, the actor Billy Howle

More Than 500 People Arrested At Rally For Palestine Action

April 12, 2026 Al Jazeera. , , , ,
Police in London have arrested more than 500 pro-Palestinian protesters supporting the Palestine Action group during a sit-down demonstration in Trafalgar Square. Officers have removed activists while other demonstrators have cheered and clapped. The protesters on Saturday faced arrest for holding placards supporting Palestine Action, and the Metropolitan Police confirmed 523 arrests of people aged 18 to 87. Palestine Action was designated a “terrorist” organisation in July, making membership in or support for the group punishable by up to 14 years in prison.

‘Everyone’ To Defy UK’s Farcical ‘Cat And Mouse’ Game Of Arrests

April 9, 2026 The Canary. , , , ,
On Saturday 11 April 2026, thousands of ordinary, peace-loving people will gather in Trafalgar Square, London. They’ll be there in open defiance of the UK government’s misguided crackdown on peaceful protest. This peaceful vigil, called ‘Everyone Day’, will demonstrate the unwaning resistance to the ban on Palestine Action. The UK government unlawfully proscribed this direct action movement as a ‘terrorist group’, paving the way for numerous arrests. The action will be a peaceful vigil, with people sitting down holding their handwritten paper signs.

Palestine Action: Aggravated Burglary Charges Dropped Against 18 Defendants

February 18, 2026 Katherine Hearst, Middle East Eye. , , , ,
Eighteen defendants allegedly involved in a Palestine Action raid on an Israeli-owned arms factory in the UK will no longer face charges of aggravated burglary, after six others were acquitted of the same charges. Following the decision to drop the charges, five of the defendants  – William Plastow, Ian Sanders, Madeline Norman, Julia Brigadirova and Aleksandra Herbich – were granted conditional bail. Plastow, Sanders and Norman have been held on remand for the longest period of the 18- spending 18 months in prison. Birgadirova and Herbich has been imprisoned since November 2024.

High Court Overturns Palestine Action Ban

February 13, 2026 Asa Winstanley, The Electronic Intifada. , , ,
The High Court has ruled Britain’s ban on Palestine Action unlawful. A panel of judges found on Friday that the ban resulted in “very significant interference with the right to freedom of speech and the right to freedom of assembly.” Activists were jubilant. “Elbit Systems: pack up your bags. Palestine Action is back,” lisa minerva luxx said at a press conference outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London. Elbit Systems is Israel’s biggest arms firm. It has at least six remaining sites in the UK but Palestine Action’s assertive campaigns have shut down four others.

Why The Jury Were Right To Acquit Palestine Action

February 10, 2026 Jonathan Cook, Consortium News. , , , ,
Even before the trial began, the British government had done its utmost to prejudice the proceedings against six Palestine Action activists. It declared that they belonged to a terrorist organisation and that they were engaged in a terrorist enterprise in breaking into an Israeli weapons factory in Filton, Bristol – one, British officials avoided mentioning, that makes drones used to kill children in Gaza. In the months before the trial, the home secretary of the time, Yvette Cooper, explicitly said her decision to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation was, in part, based on the events that had unfolded at the Filton factory.

Palestine Action Activists Cleared In Elbit Systems ‘Burglary’ Case

February 4, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. , , , ,
Six Palestine Action activists were cleared of aggravated burglary charges on 4 February after a jury at Woolwich Crown Court in south London returned not-guilty verdicts. The case centered on a 2024 break-in at a UK facility operated by Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems, leading to the defendants being accused of infiltrating the site with the “intent to use violence.” The action was framed as aggravated burglary, carrying a potential life sentence. After a trial that began in November 2025, jurors acquitted Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Leona Kamio, Fatema Zainab Rajwani, Zoe Rogers, and Jordan Devlin of aggravated burglary.

Palestine Action Strikers Shame The UK

January 18, 2026 Michael Leonardi, Counter Punch. , , ,
In a defiant stand that has shaken the corridors of British power, the imprisoned activists of Palestine Action have suspended their grueling hunger strike after forcing a major concession from the UK government. As of January 14, 2026 the last holdouts, including Heba Muraisi after 73 days without food, Kamran Ahmed at 66 days, and Lewie Chiaramello (who alternated days due to Type 1 diabetes), declared victory. They ended the protest upon news that Elbit Systems UK — Israel’s largest arms manufacturer — was denied a £2 billion Ministry of Defence contract for training British troops.

Britain’s Palestine Solidarity Hunger Strike Ends

January 16, 2026 Ana Vracar, People's Dispatch. , , ,
Three Palestine solidarity hunger strikers in Britain – Heba Muraisi, Kamran Ahmed, and Lewie Chiaramello – ended their action late on January 14, announcing significant progress on the strike’s demands. At the time the action ended, medical professionals had warned that the activists were at risk of “imminent death,” with Muraisi having refused food for 73 days. The hunger strike began in early November and focused on demands related to prisoners’ civil rights, as well as calls to cease Britain’s complicity in Israel’s genocide in Palestine. One of the key demands was an end to the operations of Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems in the United Kingdom.

Why I Am On Hunger Strike In Solidarity With Pal Action Detainees

January 11, 2026 Mansoor Adayfi, Al Jazeera. , , , ,
I know this road. I have its map etched into my bones. I carry scars that won’t heal without justice, without accountability. I learned it in Guantanamo, when the only thing I could control was my own body. We were disappeared. Isolated. Forced into silence. Our words were redacted. Our letters were stamped secret. Lawyers were blocked. Time stretched and rotted. No court dates were given. No real charges were made. I was reduced to a number in an orange uniform, locked in a metal cage. The US government had already named me. “The worst of the worst.” “Terrorist.” “Enemy combatant.” Labels designed to make torture sound necessary.

Palestine Action Activists On Hunger Strike Reach ‘Critical Phase’

January 9, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. , , ,
British doctors warned on 6 January that Palestine Action-linked prisoners refusing food in UK jails were facing life-threatening risks, describing them as “well into the critical phase,” as the hunger strikers vowed to continue despite repeated hospitalizations. The protest involves activists detained over alleged actions targeting UK sites connected to Israeli arms firm Elbit Systems – a company that has recorded record profits since the start of the Gaza genocide by supplying the Israeli military with weapons, munitions, and surveillance systems – as well as a Royal Air Force base. 
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