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Attacks on the movement for Palestine are escalating. Following the high profile detainment of political prisoner and Palestine movement activist, Mahmoud Khalil, several other pro-Palestine students and researchers across the United States have been abducted by federal agents and threatened with deportation by the Trump administration.

The escalation of attacks on the movement for Palestine is not confined to the United States. In France, the state is using broad “anti-terrorism” laws to target prominent figures on the Left who have shown solidarity with the Palestinian struggle. As journalist Olly Haynes reports in Jacobin, these anti-terrorism laws have already been used to sentence a labor activist to a year in prison for a communique contextualizing the October 7 attacks, which stated, “the horrors of the illegal occupation have accumulated. Since [October 7] they have received the responses that they themselves provoked.”

On June 18, another labor activist will head to trial. Anasse Kazib is a railroad worker, union activist, former presidential candidate, and spokesperson for the publication/political organization Revolution Permanente (RP). For writing a post on X........

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