Cllr Shaun Harkin said "We welcome the High Court's conclusion that the British government's proscription of Palestine Action was unlawful. This is a victory for the Palestine solidarity movement.
We commend Huda Ammori, all those who campaigned against this injustice and the thousands of people who were arrested in acts of civil disobedience in defiance of this unjust ban.
We salute the Civil Rights veterans in Derry who challenged proscription from the very beginning with weekly protests in Guildhall Square exposing Starmer's authoritarian overreach and defending the right to protest genocide.
The British government should accept defeat and drop any intention of appealing against this ruling.
Charges against all members of the Filton 24 and others who have taken action to stop Israel's war crimes should be dropped. Arrests made in response to protests against the ban should be rescinded.
The PPS/PSNI should drop the threat of terrorism charges being brought against Civil Rights activists and Palestine solidarity campaigners in Derry and elsewhere. This includes the two letters I have received from the PSNI threatening potential terrorism charges.
The correspondence between Wes Streeting and his disgraced Labour Party colleague Peter Mandelson make clear the highest-ranking members of the British government know Israel is committing war crimes.
The British government is complicit with the barbarism Israel carried out in Gaza over the last several years - and which continues under the guise of a non-existent 'peace'.
Israel, with the support of the British government, the US government, and the leadership of the EU, are responsible for terrorism on an unimaginable scale.
The ban on Palestine Action was designed to intimidate the mass movement opposing the Gaza genocide and silence criticism of the British government.
Starmer's attempt to cover up his government's complicity with Israeli terrorism has failed.
Those who have assisted Israel's pulverisation of Gaza must be held to account. Genocide supporters and warmongers must be ousted from power for the good of humanity."
