Palestine Action court decision horrifies Zionist lobby groups

Two Israel lobby groups have reacted with horror to the High Court’s decision today, Friday 13 February, to unban Palestine Action, a group that specialises in sabotaging Israeli weapons factories.

What a shock.

Zionists need their fainting couches over Palestine Action

A panel of High Court judges have today declared the Starmer regime’s ‘terrorist’ ban on Palestine Action to be unlawful and a breach of UK human rights. The so-called ‘Jewish Leadership Council’ (JLC) and the ‘Board of Deputies’ (BOD) have expressed their dismay.

Unsurprisingly, it was expressed in the most weaselly way possible. T

he groups start by claiming to respect the need for judicial oversight, lie that Palestine Action attacked “Jewish communal life” and turn the whole thing into – you’ve guessed it – an attack on the decision of the judicial oversight:

We recognise the vital importance of judicial oversight in matters of national security and civil liberties. However, the practical impact of Palestine Action’s activities on Jewish communal life has been significant and deeply unsettling.

On top of everything else, this antisemitic statement doesn’t explain how a group that only targets weapons factories and other support for Israel’s genocide and war crimes is supposedly impacting “Jewish communal life”.

And if this wording sounds a bit familiar, it’s probably because it basically recycles the BOD’s statement and logical gymnastics of just over a week ago – 4 February 2026 – when a jury acquitted six Palestine Action activists who were viciously attacked by security guards as they tried to disable an Israeli murder-drone factory in Bristol.

“While it is important to respect the integrity of the judicial process”, the BOD said, it clearly didn’t think it important enough to actually apply to the jury’s decision:

We are concerned by the troubling verdicts acquitting members of Palestine Action, an organisation that has been proscribed as a terrorist group, and whose activities have included targeting businesses linked to the Jewish community in London and Manchester.

Hmmm. And while both the BOD and JLC present themselves as “Jewish” and “communal”, the situation is not as clean as they paint it. The BOD has managed to remain a charity (though also a limited company), even though its core purpose is explicitly political – and explicitly to promote the interests of a particular foreign power.

Shilling for Israel

The BOD’s constitution states that it exists to do everything it can to advance Israel’s “standing”:

Take such appropriate action as lies within its power to advance Israel’s security, welfare and standing.

The ‘mission statement‘ of the JLC, another limited company rather than actually a ‘council’, says that its job is to make the UK ‘Jewish community’ is engaged with Israel”. JLC played a role in a 2025 smear campaign against then-new education union leader Matt Wrack, a vocal critic of Israel. It was also heavily involved in the efforts of Morgan McSweeney’s so-called ‘Labour Together’ to destroy the Canary.

Both are prominent players in the UK Israel lobby that has boasted of its role in banning Palestine Action. As has been demonstrated, they were already trying to undo the decision of a British jury to suit Israel’s interests. Not quite such a shock, then, that they are now clutching pearls over yet another court setback.

Featured image via the Canary