[News] CAGE releases study on the effectiveness of Palestine Action’s direct action campaign in the UK

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CAGE releases study on the effectiveness of Palestine Action’s direct
action campaign in the UK
November 28, 2025
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CAGE International has released a major new report documenting how direct
action for Palestine – and Palestine Action (PA) in particular, has
fundamentally reshaped Britain’s political landscape by directly disrupting
the UK’s material links to Israeli genocide. The report shows how PA’s
strategic focus on Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest arms manufacturer, has
been exceptionally effective: closing factories, halting production,
driving up costs, and forcing corporations, investors and logistics
providers to reconsider their role in enabling genocide.

The report, “Putting Bodies on the Line: The Landscape of Direct Action and
Civil Disobedience for Palestine in the UK,” documents the rise of direct
action from 2020–2025. It charts how a disciplined, targeted, movement
driven by its own conscience and purpose made complicity too costly to
ignore, and how this pressure sparked a national reckoning around the
limits of conscience, civil resistance, and state power.

Published during the judicial review challenging the proscription of
Palestine Action, the report provides a detailed timeline and analysis of
the movement’s strategic successes, its own moral clarity, and the
escalating repression of the state in response. Its release comes as
Palestine Action prisoners have entered a prolonged hunger strike, the
Filton 24 trials begin to unfold, and police continue to arrest members of
the public for engaging in civil disobedience in solidarity with Palestine
Action against Israeli genocide.

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The report provides a clear chronology of key actions – from the sustained
campaign that shut down Elbit’s Oldham factory, to major production
stoppages at Filton and Teledyne – illustrating how strategic disruption,
not symbolism, defined the movement’s impact.

Dr Asim Qureshi, CAGE International’s Research Director and author of the
report, said:

*“This report sets out a simple truth: when institutions are complicit in
genocide, a conscience-driven resistance will always break through the
cracks. Direct action is the language of those who refuse to be silent in
the face of atrocity. Attempts to suppress these actions through
criminalisation have not only failed, but have revealed the state’s
determination to protect profit and political alliances over human life.
The success of direct action is clear – repeated acquittals of actionists
marks a shift in the public’s perception around Zionism, and the role that
it plays in the world, especially as this genocide continues.”*

The release also highlights the wider context, including the International
Court of Justice findings of genocidal acts by Israel, and Britain’s
continued political and military support, which has made the UK an active
facilitator of ongoing crimes against the Palestinian people.

*READ: UK police arrest London protesters opposing ban on Palestine Action
<https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251120-uk-police-arrest-london-protesters-opposing-ban-on-palestine-action/>*
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