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• Quakers apply to intervene in Judicial Review of the proscription of Palestine Action

  8 September 2025

  Quakers in Britain has applied to intervene in the judicial review of the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation, saying the ban has undermined their freedom of religion.

• Stand in solidarity with Shadi Khoury

  3 September 2025

  Update: 8 September 2025. Despite no evidence and consistent denials, Shadi Khoury convicted by Israeli military court on unsubstantiated charges of participating in a protest. Sentencing is scheduled for 15 December.

• Merchants of death relocate after two years of protest

  2 September 2025

  One of the UK's biggest arms fairs is to relocate from Telford to Birmingham following two years of persistent protest.

• Quakers condemn dangerous Ramallah Friends School incursion

  28 August 2025

  On Tuesday, 26 August, the Israeli army carried out a dangerous incursion outside the gates of the Quaker Ramallah Friends School in the occupied West Bank.

• Quaker statement on asylum seeker harassment

  27 August 2025

  27 August 2025

• Delay PA prosecutions, Quakers and others urge attorney general

  15 August 2025

  Quakers in Britain has joined leading civil liberties organisations in urging Attorney General Richard Hermer to delay prosecuting peaceful protesters arrested for expressing support for Palestine Action.

• Quakers join Faslane vigil against nuclear weapons

  5 August 2025

  The "No to Nuclear Weapons" ecumenical peace gathering marked the 80th anniversary of the horrific nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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