France Looks to Imprison Pro-Palestine Activists
Posted by: John Phoenix
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Attacks on the movement for Palestine are escalating. Following the high profile detainment of political prisoner and Palestine movement activist, Mahmoud Khalil, several other pro-Palestine students and researchers across the United States have been abducted by federal agents and threatened with deportation by the Trump administration.
The escalation of attacks on the movement for Palestine is not confined to the United States. In France, the state is using broad “anti-terrorism” laws to target prominent figures on the Left who have shown solidarity with the Palestinian struggle. As journalist Olly Haynes reports in Jacobin, these anti-terrorism laws have already been used to sentence a labor ...