This is The Guardian.

Do we really think history is going to look back at the site of thousands of people,

including grannies, being arrested for holding placards, opposing genocide,

and look back and think, well,

that was an episode to be proud of. I think it's going to go down as a very shameful episode,

and I think it's quite obvious in the here and now.

The UK government's ban on a Palestinian campaign group under terrorism legislation

has been found unlawful in a dramatic ruling by the High Court in London.

When a government applies the term, legally speaking, terrorism to movements, organisations and

individuals, which are clearly not terrorists, a red line has been crossed. That is a red line

where you cross into some degree of authoritarianism. Judges at the High Court have ruled that the government's prescription of Palestine action as a terror group is unlawful.

From The Guardians today in Focus, this is the latest with me, Lucy Hoff.

I'm joined by Owen Jones, Guardian columnist.

Thank you for being with us. It's great to have you on the show. Thanks for dialing in.

Great to see you. Great to see you too. So we're speaking on this pretty extraordinary day.

Palestine action, which was prescribed by the government in the summer of last year in July, putting it in the same group as ISIS, Al-Qaeda, various neo-Nazi groups. That has

been ruled unlawful in the High Court. We'll come on to the detail because it's not clear

cut, is it? The government are still saying effectively the ban remains in place and that they plan

to appeal. But nonetheless, this is a huge legal victory for Hudaa Ramiore and the other activists involved in this case.

Yeah, a historic victory. And I think what's so striking about it is, I mean, in the judgment it says they engage in criminal activity for which normal criminal law exists.

You know, if you engage in property damage, you do expect to get arrested.

The question of what is unlawful, of course, which is what Shabana Mahmoud has said about

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