The Jewish Chronicle, on UK Politics, 2 November 2026

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JLC and CST permitted to intervene in Palestine Action proscription appeal

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The Jewish Leadership Council (JLC) and the Community Security Trust (CST) have been given permission by the Supreme Court to intervene in the appeal to reverse the proscription of Palestine Action later this week. The court’s hearings on the case are scheduled for November 4 and 5 after .

In a joint statement, the two Jewish organisations said: “The Supreme Court has granted permission to the JLC and the CST to jointly intervene in the appeal relating to the proscription of Palestine Action. “Before it was proscribed, Palestine Action’s violent activism spread from attacking companies they believed were linked to Israel, to targeting Jewish-owned businesses and premises in Jewish community areas, in its campaign against ‘Zionist influence’.

“We are intervening in this case to take a stand against Palestine Action’s use of political violence and terrorism. Our submissions explain why the continued proscription of Palestine Action matters, not only for the Jewish community, but for society as a whole.” The group was first proscribed in July 2025, weeks after its activists broke into RAF Brize Norton and sprayed red paint over two RAF Voyager aircraft. A previous trial was told that repairs following that attack had cost £1.7 million, with the final bill potentially reaching £15 million.

The group has targeted pro-Israel and Jewish organisations. In November 2024, it claimed responsibility for spraying red paint on the London offices of the Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre (Bicom) and the Jewish National Fund (JNF). Since its proscription by then Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, Palestine Action has attempted to legally challenge the ban. In February, the High Court ruled that the proscription was unlawful and disproportionate.

However, the Court of Appeal overturned that decision in June, leaving the ban in force ahead of the Supreme Court hearing scheduled for November 4 and 5. Last week, in a rare joint leader, the JC and the Jewish News appealed to the court to maintain the ban. Palestine Action’s proscription has led to mass protests in which , many of them for holding signs reading: “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action.”

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What we found (3)

The Jewish Chronicle reports that the JLC and CST will intervene in the Supreme Court appeal over the Palestine Action ban. It gets the case's own court history wrong in S2, in a way its later sentences contradict. It gives the interveners' statement four sentences while Huda Ammori, who brought the appeal, is never quoted, and it shrinks the arrests to 'hundreds' when other coverage of the same week reports nearly 4,000.

  1. Makes a false claim

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    “appealed a High Court ruling, which itself reversed a lower court decision that the government’s proscription of Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act 2000 was unlawful”

    Why this matters
    The Chronicle says Huda Ammori is appealing a High Court ruling that overturned a lower court's finding that the ban was unlawful.
    The impression it gives
    A reader believes the High Court upheld the ban, and that some lower court had earlier struck it down.
    The context
    The article's own later sentences say the reverse. The High Court ruled the ban unlawful and disproportionate, and the Court of Appeal overturned that ruling in June. Ammori is appealing the Court of Appeal's decision, not a High Court one. The error hides that the High Court found against the government.

    How we know

    • Elsewhere in the article“the High Court ruled that the proscription was unlawful and disproportionate”
    • Elsewhere in the article“the Court of Appeal overturned that decision in June”

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    Written straight

    The hearings follow an appeal by co-founder Huda Ammori against a Court of Appeal ruling that overturned the High Court's finding that the proscription was unlawful and disproportionate.

  2. Uses figures that mislead

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    “hundreds of people have been arrested under counter-terror legislation”

    Why this matters
    The Chronicle puts the number arrested at protests against the ban at 'hundreds'.
    The impression it gives
    A reader believes a few hundred people have been arrested since the ban.
    The context
    In the same week, The Observer quoted Huda Ammori putting the figure at nearly 4,000 arrests of sign-holding protesters. It also reported the foreign secretary's concern about the mass arrest of peaceful protesters, including hundreds of pensioners. 'Hundreds' understates the scale by an order of magnitude, and the Chronicle gives no figure or source.

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  3. One side gets the space

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    “the group’s co-founder Huda Ammori appealed”

    Why this matters
    The Chronicle names the appellant only as the person who appealed. It then gives the JLC and CST four sentences of quotation, from S3 to S6, and closes the middle of the piece on its own leader backing the ban.
    The impression it gives
    A reader hears at length why the ban should stand and never hears why the woman bringing the case says it should go.
    The context
    Ammori's case was on the record that week. She told The Observer the ban was an unprecedented attack on free speech and civil liberties. The article reports none of it.

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