23 June 2025, 17:43 | Updated: 24 June 2025, 00:37

By Andrew Marr

Palestine Action was today banned by the Government.

The Home Secretary Yvette Cooper used anti-terrorism laws to make it a criminal offence to belong to the group – which means anyone who joins it, promotes it, arranges meetings for it or even carries its logo in public could face up to 14 years in jail.

That puts it in the same category as Hamas, Al Qaeda or Isis but not the IRGC - Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.

Let me be crystal clear. Although there are, no doubt, members of Palestine Action who are thoughtful, reasonable and well-informed, I think the group in general are childish,........

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