Demonstrators shout and gesture toward a police line during a protest by Palestine Action group in London, Monday, June 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)A Labour peer and former cabinet minister has said he is “deeply ashamed” at the government’s bid to ban Palestine Action.Lord Hain, who served under both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, said he would have been labelled a “terrorist” for campaigning against apartheid in South Africa in the 1960s and 70s.Palestine Action describes itself as a “direct action movement committed to ending global participation in Israel’s genocidal and apartheid regime”.It aims to target “corporate enablers of the Israeli military-industrial complex”.Lord Hain spoke out after MPs voted to proscribe the group as a terrorist group on Wednesday night.Home Office minister Dan Jarvis told the Commons: “By implementing this measure, we will remove
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