The proscription was in response to their protest in 2022 where they aimed to destroy some equipment. This isn't a terrorist act. The people involved were prosecuted under existing laws and served prison time for what they did, which were not acts of terror.

Their acts are not violent, they are not threatening anyone and calling throwing paint at planes "serious damage to property" is a stretch.

If we are going to give organisations the label of terrorist based on this flimsy criteria then Reform should also be proscribed for inciting people to protest at hotels where asylum seeker children are living, commiting arson and threatening violence. Physical violence against humans.

Palestine Action want the UK to stop sending military equipment to Israel. There are people in power making a fuck load of money off this, and they've proscribed PA after being out under pressure to make them go away.

To clarify, it is a significant stretch that under British law Palestine Action committed any acts of terrorism.

It is mostly an authoritarian overreach.

And the reason that people are protesting so vehemently is two-fold:

Firstly, it is critical for the functioning of our society, that the government is not able to freely carry out gross abuses of power such as the designation of Palestine Action as a terrorist group.

Secondly, it is relatively trivial for the government to use their proscription of Palestine Action as a basis for the proscription of subsequent protest groups, and they have also already used it to arrest people simply for signs which say things like "free Palestine".

In other words, protestors are able to make twice the impact with a single protest.

Sure they did something highly illegal, but anyone who thinks that illegally trying to stop a weapons shipment is terrorism is insane. If "using force to achieve a political goal" is terrorism, then nearly every country on the planet is a terrorist organization. Idk if thats like actually the UK's definition or something but that is a ludicrous definition for terrorism.

Terrorists use terror. Its why they are called that. Not the use of force, but specifically attempting to strike deep fear into a civilian populace. At no point was PA trying to make people fearful. They were trying to stop people from dying.