Met Police threatens mass arrests at Saturday's Palestine Action protest
Defend Our Juries plans a 400-strong rally outside the US Embassy demanding the ban be lifted; police warn organisers and attendees both face arrest.
What to know
- Met Police warns that anyone attending, organising or giving logistical support to Saturday's protest outside the US Embassy could be arrested under the Terrorism Act.
- Defend Our Juries says 400 people had signed up; a prior Liverpool protest saw 50 of 250+ attendees arrested.
- Palestine Action has been proscribed since June 2025, with the Court of Appeal upholding the ban in June 2026.
- Defend Our Juries and Green Party leader Zack Polanski argue the warning criminalises peaceful protest and support, especially for elderly or disabled participants.
Defend Our Juries Protest organiserAdam Slonecki Metropolitan Police commander
Zack Polanski Green Party leaderPalestine Action Proscribed group at centre of the ban
How it unfolded 3 developments, newest first · click a bar or a number to jump articlesposts
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Met Police reiterates arrest warning hours before protest
In a fresh statement ahead of Saturday's rally, the Met repeated that expressing support for Palestine Action remains an offence under the Terrorism Act following the June 2026 Court of Appeal ruling.
“Expressing support for the group is an offence under the Terrorism Act following its proscription in June 2025, a decision upheld by the Court of Appeal in June 2026.”
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first by London Evening Standard, 8d ago · also Evening Standard, Sky News, The Telegraph, Guardian, Arab News, Yahoo +7
19 more headlines
- London protest LIVE: Hundreds face arrest at pro-Palestine Action demo outside US Embassy Evening Standard · 8d ago
- Dozens arrested for expressing support for Palestine Action at protest Sky News · 8d ago
- Dozens of Palestine Action protesters arrested outside US embassy The Telegraph · 8d ago
- More than 100 protest against Palestine Action ban outside US embassy in London Guardian · 8d ago
- Dozens arrested outside London’s US Embassy at Palestine Action protest Arab News · 8d ago
- Almost 50 arrested at protest against Palestine Action ban outside US embassy in London Mastodon · 8d ago
- Dozens arrested outside US embassy after showing support for Palestine Action Yahoo · 7d ago
- More than 100 arrested at London demo for banned Palestine Action group Evening Standard · 7d ago
- More than 300 arrested after supporting Palestine Action during US embassy protest The Independent · 7d ago
- More than 300 arrested outside US embassy after supporting Palestine Action The Independent · 7d ago
- Dozens of arrests made as hundreds attend pro-Palestine Action protest outside US embassy The Independent · 7d ago
- More than 100 arrested outside US embassy after supporting Palestine Action The Independent · 7d ago
- Palestine Action supporters arrested outside US embassy in London Al Jazeera · 7d ago
- Over 130 arrested over Palestine Action terror designation protest outside US Embassy in London Jerusalem Post · 7d ago
- More than 300 arrested at London demo supporting banned Palestine Action group London Evening Standard · 7d ago
- In update, UK police say 325 arrested at London protest in support of banned Palestine Action The Times of Israel · 7d ago
- Over 300 arrested outside US Embassy in London amid protests against ban on Palestine Action group The Times of India · 7d ago
- Over 300 arrested at US Embassy in London during Palestine Action protests Times of India · 7d ago
- More than 300 arrests at Palestine Action support protest outside US embassy Mastodon · 4d ago
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first by Jerusalem Post, 8d ago · also Middle East Eye, Sky News, Anadolu Agency, Al Jazeera, Times of Israel, Breitbart +4
9 more headlines
- Anyone attending, organising Palestine Action protest will be arrested, Metropolitan Police warns Middle East Eye · 8d ago
- Police arrest 139 people during Palestine Action protest Sky News · 8d ago
- UK police arrest 48 at protest supporting proscribed Palestine Action Anadolu Agency · 8d ago
- London police arrest 139 as hundreds protest Palestine Action ban Mastodon · 7d ago
- London police arrest 48 as hundreds protest Palestine Action ban Al Jazeera · 7d ago
- UK police arrest dozens at London protest in support of banned Palestine Action Times of Israel · 7d ago
- UK Police Arrest 325 at Protest Supporting Banned 'Palestine Action' Terror Group Breitbart · 7d ago
- UK police say 325 people were arrested at Palestine Action demo Al-Monitor · 7d ago
- British police say 325 people were arrested at Palestine Action demo Straits Times · 7d ago
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BREAKING: The Met Police say 139 people have been arrested during a protest in support of Palestine Action outside the US embassy in London. https://t.co/XGWn8M3GZ4 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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London police say that dozens of people have been arrested at a protest outside the U.S. Embassy in support of the proscribed group Palestine Action.
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The arrests of peaceful protestors demonstrating against the proscription of Palestine Action continued in London today; The problem is now that the Met. have decided Sarah Helm's post did not meet the criteria for police action, others are using that form of wording (although as pointed out previously the thresholds for on-line & public…
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Defend Our Juries and Green Party condemn the warning
Defend Our Juries questioned arresting people giving logistical support to elderly or disabled protesters, while Green Party leader Zack Polanski called the police stance a 'deeply worrying escalation'.
“How can the Met possibly justify arresting people who are not defying the ban themselves...?”
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Met Police issue arrest warning ahead of pro-Palestine Action protest outside US Embassy in London “How can the Met possibly justify arresting people who are not defying the ban themselves...?"
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Met Police warns attendees and organisers face arrest — Commander Adam Slonecki said anyone attending, organising, giving instructions or providing logistical support to the protest would 'very likely be committing an offence', ahead of a 'robust policing operation'.
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Defend Our Juries confirms 400 signed up for US Embassy protest
Organisers announced a 'mass-action' protest outside the US Embassy in Battersea for Saturday 31 October, calling the proscription a 'huge attack on our democratic right to protest'.
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3 outlets Met Police issue arrest warning for 'mass' pro-Palestine Action protest outside US Embassy in London
first by Evening Standard, 9d ago · also The Independent, London Evening Standard
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- Met Police prepared to arrest 400 Palestine Action supporters at US embassy protest The Independent · 9d ago
- Police issue arrest warning ahead of mass pro-Palestine Action protest in London London Evening Standard · 9d ago
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Liverpool Defend Our Juries protest ends in 50 arrests — More than 250 protesters attended a prior Defend Our Juries demonstration during the Labour Party conference, where 50 people were arrested for supporting Palestine Action.
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Court of Appeal upholds the proscription as lawful — Five judges ruled the ban on Palestine Action was a 'justified and proportionate' interference with freedom of expression rights, overturning an earlier High Court judgment.
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UK proscribes Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act — Palestine Action, founded in 2020 by Huda Ammori and Richard Barnard to stop British arms exports to Israel, is banned, making membership, support or display of its symbols a criminal offence.
What people are saying 20 voices from 3 sites · best of 29 · verbatim
- Nov 6
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No such thing as a blank check just because you claim to have “rule of law”. Especially when people are explicitly protesting the incorrect application of this “rule of law”.
- Nov 4
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I agree that it doesn't feel like terrorism - but it definitely does fit a number of the criteria (not withstanding the sledgehammer attack). I think the official statement when they were proscribed is worth a read: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2025-06-23/hcws729 Specifically, During Palestine Action’s…
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Oh, I don't. There's a big Israeli bot push to dominate social media and public opinion. Going by the recent midterms in the US, it's not going so well..
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There are American dollars in Gaza, West Bank, Golan Heights and Southern Lebanon.
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Because Israel doesn't care about our protests as long as it doesn't threaten their material support. Protesting Israel wouldn't do anything, they already know most people are against them. What's important to them is that it doesn't translate to them losing support from the US and to an extent Europe.
- Nov 3
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bbc.com/news/article... What a total waste of taxpayers money. FFS Burnham stop supporting Genocide.
- Nov 1
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"The # MetPolice said on Sunday that 325 arrests were made, 320 of them for "expressing support for a proscribed organisation under the # Terrorism Act". At least 4,000 arrests have been made in relation to # PalestineAction , which was proscribed in July 2025." " # DefendOurJuries said the number of people detained this weekend took the total…
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And the arrests around the proscription of Palestine Acton have now topped 4,000; with over 300 today in London. Even as the Needy Disappointer doubles down on the proscription, the case heads back to Court this week, and Yvette Cooper's anti-democratic move continues to undermine claims the Labour Party supports of democracy. If protest is…
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But you do. But the export licenses are secret as made clear by Bryant's response to Stainbank's question. Bryant said: We suspended export licences for Israel where these relate to items for use in military operations in Gaza. This includes licences for components for fighter aircraft, helicopters and drones, naval systems and targeting…
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Fundamentally, the Establishment is trying to decide whether voters will hold their nose and ignore ‘vicars and grannies’ being arrested for terrorism for just holding a bit of paper protesting against genocide carried out by Israel against Palestinians…or whether we are on the cusp of mass civil unrest and the whole house of cards crumbling…
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You don't think the government feels embarassed about the police arresting hundreds of pensioners every other week? These laws were designed to combat terrorists, not your nan down the road or your local retired vicar. Yvette Cooper is clearly embarrassed about it, and was visibly so at the Labour party conference when journalists asked her about…
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"In September, when quizzed by LBC radio’s Andrew Marr about the “elderly people, vicars and grannies” who have been arrested for holding placards allegedly supporting Palestine Action, the foreign secretary, Ed Miliband, said: “I don’t think anyone’s intent was to have those people criminalised."" That's one of the drawbacks of knee-jerk…
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What exactly is a march to "make energy prices cheaper" supposed to do? Everyone already universally agrees that cost of living should go down, and politicians make their best attempt to do so to appease everyone. You may as well go on a march to convince everyone that getting cancer is bad.
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Some people still don't get it: This is no longer about a bunch of radicals who took direct action protest too far and forgot the "non violent" bit. This is about the right to protest: an age old cultural right that goes back to pre-Roman times in Britain. Many have died to defend that right.
- Oct 31
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UK Police are still arresting old people for holding little cardboard signs opposing genocide. So far they've taken more than 4,000 of these lawless pensioners off the streets. The old people face up to 14 years in prison under 'terrorism' laws. I'd hoped that Burnham might have overturned this waste of police resources, but no. Opposing genocide…
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138 elderly ladies and a late middle-aged vicar arrested. I feel safer already. 1
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🇬🇧 Dozens arrested outside #US #Embassy in #London for supporting outlawed pro- #Palestinian group https://apnews.com/article/uk-palestine-action-us-embassy-protest-arrests-181ab108a671bcabf5433863608949bc Dozens of people were arrested at a protest outside the U.S. Embassy in London on Saturday in support of the proscribed group Palestine…
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Fearless Met officers are bravely arresting pensioners again... https://www. theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/o ct/31/protest-against-palestine-action-ban-outside-us-embassy-in-london
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Metropolitan Police carry out mass arrests outside the US Embassy in London as hundreds gather holding signs opposing genocide and supporting Palestine Action, with officers detaining people even for blank placards. # Israel # Palestine # Gaza # Genocide
- Oct 30
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Met Police to arrest 400 Palestine Action supporters at US embassy protest Palestine Action supporters are set to gather outside the US embassy on Saturday Expressing support for the proscribed group constitutes an offence under the Terrorism Act