According to a former justice secretary, the spray painting of aircraft on an RAF basis by a pro-Palestinian group would not offer the only legal justification to prohibit it.
The Minister of the Interior, Yvette Cooper, is expected to be in the coming days after an incident on Friday in Raf Brize Norton in Oxfordshire in the coming days after an incident on Raf Brize.
Jonathan Reynolds, the commercial secretary, said on Sunday that it was the fourth attack by the group on important British defense activa and that those who interfere with Defense infrastructure in a certain period of time, “a very robust response” should expect.
“I would also say that those people do not serve the Palestinian case, who is noble,” said Reynolds in an interview on the BBC.
But reports of a step to ban the group that would in fact label it as a terrorist organization were criticized with criticism from some, including MPs, Amnesty International and former Scottish Prime Minister Humza Yousaf.
A police investigation from Thames Valley to the incident was taken over by the Police Police, while the Ministry of Defense (MOD) said it was busy revising security on its bases. Cooper is preparing a written ministerial statement that will be placed before the parliament on Monday.
Palestine Action released a short video on Friday morning with two people who do not drive electric scooters in the airbase at night and spray two military planes.
The group said it had focused on Raf Voyager aircraft used for transport and refueling, and that “activists interrupted the direct participation of Great Britain to the Genocide Committee and war crimes in the middle -east”.
The incident is the last action by the group in recent years, but it is also a particularly embarrassing violation of MOD safety on a site with transport aircraft used by the king and the prime minister.
The former justice secretary Charlie Falconer said on Sunday that the “kind of demonstration” that took place in the RAF would not justify, “so there must be something else that I don’t know”.
Asked if the actions of the group were “proportional to the need to ban an organization,” Lord Falconer said the Sunday morning of Sky News with Trevor Phillips: “I am not aware of what Palestine promotion has done than painting things on the planes in Brize Norton. They may have done other things I didn’t know.
“I think the question will probably not be what we know about them publicly, but there should be something that was known to those who look at things like this that we don’t know because they have come to the airbase, which could suggest that they have a certain degree of ability to make them dangerous.”
Criticism came from Kwartens, including the MP and the former Labor shadow Chancellor John McDonnell, who said on X: “Palestinous action demonstrators for criminal damage to paint spraying in the air base would be expected, but they did not have been in a par with mass killers such as Jihadis & Boko’s forbidden.
During a protest march in London on Saturday, Yousaf accused the British government of ‘abusing’ anti-terror laws against Palestinian action. He later said on X: “If the British government believes that those who are protesting against the atrocities in Gaza are terrorists, but those who kill children must be supported and provided with weapons, then this government has not only lost the way, it has lost its conscience.”
Amnesty International UK said it was “deeply concerned about the use of terrorism companies to focus on protest groups”.
Palestina campaign was founded in 2020 by Huda Ammori, whose father is Palestinian, and Richard Barnard, a left -wing activist. The organization, which focuses on multinational arms traders and company banks, recently focused on a factory in Shenstone, Staffordshire and claimed that it made drones for the Israeli army.
The Minister of the Interior is the focus of lobbying by groups that insist on Palestinian action that would be prohibited. The campaign to anti -Semitism said it recently wrote to her to offer the ban on Palestinian action under the Terrorism ACT 2000 and her a file about the group.
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