Lydia Conwell :mastodon:<p><a href="https://todon.nl/tags/Skwawkbox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Skwawkbox</span></a> | Starmer war on pro-Palestine speech moves to academia with detention of Prof Khoury-Machool</p><p>"Keir Starmer’s long and intensifying war on pro-Palestine, anti-genocide speech through the misuse of the Terrorism Act began almost as soon as he got into Downing Street and has continued to escalate as Starmer seeks to protect Israel and hide its crimes by raiding, harassing, intimidating and criminalising those who speak out – including journalists – about Israel’s mass murder and extermination campaign in Gaza, which has killed more than two hundred thousand civilians, maimed far more and is now starving millions through a total blockade of food, water, medicines and fuel."</p><p><a href="https://skwawkbox.org/2025/04/20/starmer-war-on-pro-palestine-speech-moves-to-academia-with-detention-of-prof-khoury-machool/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">skwawkbox.org/2025/04/20/starm</span><span class="invisible">er-war-on-pro-palestine-speech-moves-to-academia-with-detention-of-prof-khoury-machool/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://todon.nl/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Genocide</span></a> <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/Censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Censorship</span></a> <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/Starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Starmer</span></a> <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/Protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Protest</span></a></p>