It was positioned underneath a CCTV camera overlooking one side of the Royal Courts of Justice. The grand court complex, on the Strand in central London, houses the High Court and the Court of Appeal of England and Wales. The co-founder of Palestine Action is waging a legal battle in the High Court against the government’s decision to put the organization on the same legal footing as groups such as Al Qaeda and Islamic State. The government ban came after two members of Palestine Action broke into a British military base and damaged planes to protest Britain’s military support for Israel. Palestine Action is the first organization to be banned under a segment of Britain’s legal definition of terrorism that covers serious property damage, rather than violence against people, to advance a political cause.
