Palestine Action ban is an attack on fundamental freedoms | Letter

A letter from 47 scholars including Tariq Ali, Judith Butler, Angela Davis, Naomi Klein and Avi Shlaim• News report: Leading global scholars sign letter urging UK to end Palestine Action banAs scholars dedicated to questions of justice and ethics, we believe that Yvette Cooper’s recent proscription of Palestine Action represents an attack both on the entire pro-Palestine movement and on fundamental freedoms of expression, association, assembly, and protest. We deplore the repressive consequences that this ban has already had, and are especially concerned about the likely impact of Cooper’s ban on universities across the UK and beyond.We therefore applaud the growing campaign of collective defiance that aims to overturn the ban. We commend the courageous stand taken by Defend our Juries, and the exemplary recent motion adopted by Derry and Strabane district council that “supports all those who have protested the ban on Palestine Action and calls for charges against them to be immediately dropped”. Continue reading...

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