{"id":1029484,"date":"2026-08-28T12:58:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T12:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1029484\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T12:58:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T12:58:15","slug":"pa-activists-face-terror-charges-over-trump-golf-resort-protest-report-courts-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1029484\/","title":{"rendered":"PA activists face \u2018terror\u2019 charges over Trump golf resort protest: Report | Courts News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The charges stem from seven Palestine Action activists paint-spraying the Scottish resort to protest against the US president\u2019s stance on Gaza.<\/p>\n

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Palestine Action activists accused of vandalising a Scottish golf course owned by United States President Donald Trump have been accused of \u201cterrorism\u201d offences, according to reports.<\/p>\n

The potential use of \u201cterror-scale\u201d sentencing was reported by The Guardian and The New York Times on Friday. The seven activists, who spray-painted messages in support of Gaza and dug up turf at Trump\u2019s Turnberry golf resort in Ayrshire last year, have been charged with malicious damage \u201chaving a terrorist connection,\u201d the newspapers reported.<\/p>\n

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An initial hearing on the cases is due to open at the High Court in Glasgow on Monday, August 31.<\/p>\n

The charges stem from a March 8, 2025 protest targeting the resort over Trump\u2019s stance on Gaza. Activists from the British group sprayed red paint across the clubhouse, damaged turf and sprinklers, applied weedkiller to the greens, and painted \u201cGaza is not 4 sale\u201d across the property.<\/p>\n

All seven defendants were charged under ordinary criminal law for malicious property damage. However, the prosecution\u2019s 16-page indictment asserts the acts were \u201caggravated by reason of having a terrorist connection\u201d.<\/p>\n

Palestine Action has been locked in a legal battle with the United Kingdom since the British government proscribed it as a \u201cterrorist\u201d group<\/a> last year.<\/p>\n

Cofounder Huda Ammori said that the charges against those involved in the protest at Turnberry made it clear that prosecutors were trying to appease Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe used direct action protests to save lives \u2013 the opposite of terrorism \u2013 by disrupting the flow of arms being used to murder Palestinians,\u201d she said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy hitting the profits of arms companies and by daring to spray paint on the golf course owned by the demagogue who has enabled Netanyahu\u2019s crimes, we made powerful enemies. The British government chose to appease them by criminalising us as \u2018terrorists\u2019,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, the United States imposed sanctions<\/a> on Palestine Action and the pro-Palestine international movement Masar Badil, as the administration of President Donald Trump intensifies a global crackdown on critics of Israel.<\/p>\n

The US Department of the Treasury also imposed financial penalties on Wednesday against Autistici Inventati, an Italian group that provides digital services to left-wing organisations, including pro-Palestine groups.<\/p>\n

John McDonnell, a Labour member of the British parliament and former shadow chancellor of the exchequer, criticised the potential \u201cterror\u201d link in the charges.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe news that the protesters who allegedly sprayed red paint on Trump\u2019s golf course could face terrorist sentencing, coupled with Trump himself now announcing that he is following Britain\u2019s lead by proscribing Palestine Action as a \u2018terrorist\u2019 group, is profoundly embarrassing for Britain,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAndy Burnham has inherited this mess from the previous government. This must be the wake-up call to drop this absurdly authoritarian ban, before Starmer\u2019s blueprint is adopted by repressive governments around the world to criminalise protest and suppress political dissent.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The charges stem from seven Palestine Action activists paint-spraying the Scottish resort to protest against the US president\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1029485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[356,69,440,70,99,13191,3097,50,7237,376,67,72],"class_list":["post-1029484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-courts","tag-donald-trump","tag-europe","tag-gaza","tag-israel","tag-israel-palestine-conflict","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-protests","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-us-canada"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117173258921493376","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1029485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}