by Roots and Resistance Resistance | Sep 4, 2024 | Palestine Updates
Disclosed emails reveal that the British Government’s decision to cancel the visa of a 20-year-old Palestinian student in the UK was instigated personally by Robert Jenrick MP, the then Immigration Minister and a current Conservative leadership candidate. Following an...
by Roots and Resistance Resistance | Sep 4, 2024 | Palestine Updates
The Conservative government’s plan to deport the vast bulk of those claiming asylum in the United Kingdom (UK) to Rwanda was always about politics rather than policy – symbolism rather than substance. Government’s attempt to save itself It was first unveiled in the...
by Roots and Resistance Resistance | Sep 4, 2024 | Palestine Updates
The High Court in Northern Ireland ruled yesterday that the UK government’s law on migrant deportations to Rwanda is incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights as well as the 2020 EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement and should not be applied in the UK...
by Roots and Resistance Resistance | Sep 4, 2024 | Palestine Updates
In a major triumph for human rights protesters, the UK High Court has declared the government’s anti-protest legislation unlawful. The court found that the law, which lowered the threshold for protest crackdowns to any disturbance deemed “more than minor” was enacted...
by Roots and Resistance Resistance | Sep 2, 2024 | Palestine Updates
A Palestinian family was assaulted by illegal Israeli settlers in the northern occupied West Bank today, according to a local activist. “Settlers stole around 300 sheep belonging to the family near the town of Aqraba in Nablus,” Hasan Melihat said in a statement. One...
