Bahia Amawi, centre, speaks to a press conference. The Palestinian-US child speech pathologist from Texas sued the state over anti-BDS laws
[Jonah Candelario]
A TIMELY new film is sounding the alarm about “authoritarian” attacks on the right to boycott, as the government seeks to quietly introduce anti-BDS laws in Britain.
Last month, MPs passed an amendment to the Public Service Pensions Bill to prohibit public bodies from engaging in boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaigns.
Award-winning filmmaker Julia Bacha, whose new documentary film Boycott details the impact of anti-BDS laws in the United States on freedom of expression, has warned moves to replicate similar legislation in Britain would have “tremendously harmful consequences.”
In an address to the Communist Party’s executive at the weekend international secretary KEVAN NELSON explained why the communists’ watchwords must be Jobs not Bombs and Welfare not Warfare
MICAELA TRACEY-RAMOS explains how Britain’s largest union is putting pressure on the British government to recognise the Palestinian state and end its complicity with Israel’s murderous actions