Huda Ammori

Huda Ammori     (political activist)
Born	17 March 1994
Alma mater	University of Manchester
Founder of	Palestine Action

Huda Ammori is a British writer, campaigner and political activist with Palestinian and Iraqi heritage. She graduated from the University of Manchester where she founded BDS Campaign UoM, which exposes and seeks to end the university's complicity with Israel's war crimes.

Huda Ammori is also engaged in pro-Palestine and anti-arms trade activism and, with Richard Barnard, co-founded Palestine Action in July 2020.

Counterfire

Palestine Action VS Israel w/Lowkey & Huda Ammori, MintPress News YT channel, November 2, 2023

Huda Ammori has written a number of articles published on Counterfire:

• BDS: a response to the University of Manchester’s Balfour Celebration

• Charges dropped against activists that shut down Israel arms factory

• Ahed Tamimi: the 16-year-old Palestinian girl Israel is afraid of

• Bloody Friday in Gaza: a great return massacre

Snaresbrook Crown Court

On 6 October 2022, Palestine Action co-founders Huda Ammori and Richard Barnard were to appear at Snaresbrook Crown Court, on charges of burglary, criminal damage and blackmail, pertaining to actions spanning the first six months of Palestine Action. The jury trial was expected to last 4 to 5 weeks and, if found guilty, they face a potential 14-year jail sentence for blackmail charges:

“In two years of direct action, Palestine Action have severely disrupted the smooth functioning of a business built on bloodshed. For this, we are facing intense political repression.

"Let it be known that we stand as the accusers, not the accused, and we fully intend to expose Elbit’s many war crimes, in particular, the Israeli arms company’s role in 74 years of occupation and dispossession lived by the Palestinian people.

"#ElbitIsGuilty, we are not.”

Interference by Israel

In August 2023, Huda Ammori alleged that the "Israeli occupation" is interfering over the conduct and timing of the Palestine Action court cases in the UK.

On 12 November 2023, interviewed by Crispin Flintoff on the Not The Andrew Marr Show, Huda Ammori said her trial would resume at Snaresbrook Crown Court on Monday 13 November 2023. She invited friends and pro-Palestine supporters to attend the trial which is expected to last for six weeks.

Elbit Eight on trial

On 26 October 2023, Huda Ammori posted on X:

Whilst the British state assist in massacring my people, they put me on trial for disrupting the production of weaponry used to murder them.

Nothing they do can compare to the consequences of allowing Elbit to build their weapons. Bring it on.

Acquittals

On 10 January 2024, Huda Ammori reported:

"In total, we were acquitted on 13 counts against us.

"Richard Barnard was convicted on one count of criminal damage against Elbit’s Oldham factory after he said he didn’t believe Elbit, who owned that factory, would consent.

"Shortly after delivering the guilty verdict, the jury asked if it could be changed – it could not. The jury could not come to a majority decision on the rest of the counts against us, leaving the prosecution to decide on whether they will retrial us on those charges.

"Ultimately, we walked in facing varying amounts of prison time and received none. I was told if convicted on all the charges facing me I would be looking at a 4-5 year prison sentence.

"Yet we all walked out as free people, and two of the eight were acquitted of all charges. An incredible result when facing the British state’s wrath for having stood on the right side of history."

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Activism on trial: The Elbit Eight and Palestine solidarity	Article	16 November 2023	Fatimah Yasmin Ahmed	Eight activists are on trial this week at London’s Snaresbrook Crown Court for disrupting a lethal link in Israel’s military supply chain within the UK. Over the next six weeks, the Elbit Eight will fight in court to prove that Elbit Systems is guilty, and they are not.
Document:Eight activists go on trial for disrupting Israel’s weapons trade	Article	10 November 2023	Mohamed Elmaazi	The trial of the Elbit Eight takes place at a time when Israel is waging a genocidal war against Gaza – using weapons from Elbit Systems and several other British firms.
Document:Tracker was added to Palestine Action co-founder's phone	social media post	29 August 2024		“A tracker was found in a phone returned to us after myself and Richard Barnard were arrested for being co-founders of Palestine Action, a direct action network against Israeli weapons factories. Never use technology the police have touched. Thankfully we never did.”

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