MPs have voted to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation after the group targeted an RAF base and an Israeli defence company’s UK headquarters.
While a large majority (385) MPs voted to proscribe the group, 26 voted against the move.
The amendment to the Terrorism Act 2000 to include Palestine Action and two other groups, Maniacs Murder Cult and Russia Imperial Movement, will go to the House of Lords on Thursday and become law at midnight on 9 July if it passes through successfully.
It means it will become a criminal offence – punishable by up to 14 years in prison – to be a member of the three groups or to support them, if any legal challenges by the groups prove to be unsuccessful.
Several Labour MPs made impassioned speeches about why they think Palestine Action should not be a terrorist organisation, and raised concerns it was grouped in with the other two.
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