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THE Home Office tried to use anti-terror laws to stop Palestine Action’s protests against Israeli’s biggest weapons manufacturer, it has emerged.
Documents uncovered by Private Eye magazine confirm the department’s use of anti-terrorist officials in efforts to prevent the direct-action group from targeting Elbit Systems’ drone factories in Britain.
In 2022, then home secretary Priti Patel reassured Elbit Systems UK chief executive Martin Fausset that “the criminal protest acts” were taken seriously by the government.
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