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UK government plans to proscribe Palestine Action, effectively branding it as a terrorist organisation, are “irrational”, a member of the protest group has said.

The group targeted RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire last week, and vandalised two military planes.

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is preparing a written ministerial statement which would make becoming a member of the group illegal.

Palestine Action member Saeed Farouk told Wilfred Frost on Sky News Breakfast earlier it was a “knee-jerk reaction from the government”.

It is trying to “rush” the ban through based on the fact the group “was able to humiliate them and show serious flaws in the defences of the RAF base itself,” Farouk argued.

He said the proposal was “absurd” and he could not speculate at this point what the plans were for the group if proscribed.

“It is a Britain-based, civil society-based action group. It will put the group on a list of people like ISIS, which is irrational. It makes no sense whatsoever,” he added.

Asked if the group regretted the decision to target the RAF base, Farouk said: “Not at all.

“We’re in the middle of one of the most widely documented genocides, not only in my lifetime, but in history. 

“The British people have made it absolutely clear that they won’t accept the government’s role in the genocide, the government’s role in supporting Israel, and the only way that the British people have found to stop it is to be directly involved in breaking the material chain. 

“This is what was necessary.”