Palestine Action will be proscribed as a terrorist organisation, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has said.
The action has been taken after the activist group claimed responsibility for breaking into RAF Brize Norton last week.
Footage released by the group showed them vandalising aircraft – with reports of damage totalling millions of pounds.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said “the disgraceful attack on Brize Norton” on Friday was “the latest in a long history of unacceptable criminal damage committed by Palestine Action”
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Some of the damage to planes at RAF Brize Norton
She said a draft proscription order will be laid in parliament next week and if passed, it will make it illegal to be a member of, or invite support for, Palestine Action.
Saeed Taji Farouky, a member of the group, told Sky News the proscription was “completely irrational” and “without precedent”.
He branded it a “knee-jerk reaction from the government” because the group “was able to humiliate them and show serious flaws in the defences of the RAF base”.
Armed forces minister Luke Pollard said a “full review” of security at military bases was under way, and the government was working alongside counter-terror police to find the activists who broke into the Oxfordshire base.
A protest in support of Palestine Action was taking place on Monday in London.
Sir Mark Rowley, the head of the Metropolitan Police, said he was “shocked and frustrated” that the action was going ahead.
He added that he has limited powers to stop the demonstration until proscription takes place.
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