UK lawmakers voted Wednesday to ban Palestine Action, a UK-based group that aims to disrupt the operations of weapons manufacturers supplying the Israeli government.

Palestine Action, which describes itself as a direct action movement that uses disruptive methods, has routinely targeted companies in Britain with links to Israel, including Israeli defence firm Elbit Systems,

MPs have voted to proscribe the campaign group Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation, despite criticism from UN experts, after its activists broke into a UK military base last month. The House of Commons on Wednesday voted by 385 to 26 to pass the order to proscribe the pro-Palestinian activist group,