Criminalization of Conscience: On Palestine and British ‘Cultural McCarthyism’

By Asim Qureshi

At the heart of this crisis is a fundamental misunderstanding — or deliberate misrepresentation — of what it means to express solidarity.

In the United Kingdom today, the line between political expression and criminal offence has never been more perilously thin – as witnessed through the lens of Palestine solidarity – the extent of Britain’s encroachment upon basic…