Why the government banned Palestine Action
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Over 500 Palestine Action supporters arrested at last weekend's protests are now being processed by the courts. So who is behind the direct action protest group and is the government right to have proscribed them as terrorists?
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Guest: Tom Witherow, News Reporter, The Times
Host: Luke Jones
Producer: Rosie Stopher
Read more: A history of Palestine Action: from birth to ban
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| 0:48.3 | So it all took place on Parliament Square, and at one end you've got that line of statues, and Palestine actually like to point to Mahatma Gandhi there, the kind of the godfather of peaceful protest, let's say. |
| 0:57.2 | And then in front of that, you had sort of rows and rows and rows of people seated. |
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