'No 10's claim that Palestine Action is a violent organisation is false,' says Palestine Action co-founder
Responding to the statement from Downing Street earlier, Huda Ammori, co-founder of Palestine Action, said: “Yvette Cooper and No 10’s claim that Palestine Action is a violent organisation is false and defamatory.
“Spraying red paint on war planes is not terrorism. Disrupting Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems by trespassing on their sites in Britain is not terrorism. It is the Israeli Defense Force and all those who arm and enable their war crimes who are the terrorists.”
Closing summary
Downing Street defended the controversial proscription of Palestine Action, labelling the protest group as “violent”, with the justice minister saying supporters of the “terrorist organisation” will be subjected to the “full force of the law”. No 10 said Palestine Action has committed “significant injury” as well as criminal damage after more than 500 arrests were made at a protest linked to the group in London over the weekend.
Palestine Action’s co-founder, Huda Ammori, said: “Yvette Cooper and No 10’s claim that Palestine Action is a violent organisation is false and defamatory.”
Kemi Badenoch appeared to suggest the setting up of “camps” when speaking about possible alternatives to using hotels to house asylum seekers while out in Essex on a media event.
The education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, reaffirmed her commitment to try to reduce the number of children missing classes at schools, and pledged to make a priority of tackling British white working-class young people falling behind their peers in the year ahead.
The prison population of England and Wales has jumped to the highest number in nearly a year and is nearing record levels, despite the early release of tens of thousands of offenders, official figures showed.
Foreign criminals from 15 more countries, including India, Bulgaria and Australia, face deportation before they have a chance to appeal against the decision to remove them, in a widening of the government’s “deport first, appeal later” scheme.
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