The arrests of pro-Palestine activists have made up the majority of terrorism-related arrests in the UK since Palestine Action was proscribed in 2025, new statistics from the Home Office reveal.
The latest figures show a record high in terrorism-related arrests, with 2,867 arrests made in the year ending June 2026, up from 234 the previous year – a 1,553% increase. Of these arrests, 94 percent, or 3,630, were tied to alleged support for Palestine Action.
The entire reason you must label a mundane act as terrorism is otherwise you cannot legally arrest the person engaging in it. Perhaps we should not have such a broad legal term “terrorist,” which allows authorities to do whatever they want with citizens. Especially when it’s easy to simply label an old grandma wearing a Free Palestine shirt as a terrorist.
Next, it becomes labeling anyone who uses a VPN; then it moves on to criticizing the Prime Minister. Eventually, it will be that 90% of terror arrests are people circumventing UK-censored content. They risked reading journalism focused on Israel.