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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent

Palestinian solidarity in Britain ‘being silenced and criminalised’

A pro-Palestine protest crossing Westminster Bridge with the houses of parliament and Big Ben in the background
A pro-Palestine march on Westminster Bridge in London last October. Photograph: Guy Bell/Shutterstock

Palestinian solidarity is being “silenced, criminalised and sanctioned”, according to an advocacy group that says it has recorded more than 900 examples of repression across Britain in the last six years.

People had been targeted with smears, disinformation, harassment, doxing (having private or identifying information published online), visa cancellations, financial blacklisting, loss of employment and arrest, according to the European Legal Support Center, which, along with the research group Forensic Architecture, has created the “index of repression”.

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