Is US now more open place to pro-Palestinian activism than in UK?
Robert Inlakesh
Press TV, London
The British Labour Party adopted the full IHRA definition of anti-Semitism last September, a move that was highly contested as it included the outlawing of certain criticisms of Israel. It is now a year later and pro-Palestinian activists are now claiming an attack upon their freedom speech.
Although the definition was adopted by the Labour Party, it has been non-Labour members who have also claimed to have had their voices silenced and due to Israeli attack groups, some describing themselves as charities, many have been scared into silence.
The United Kingdom was once seen as a much easier place to have ones voice heard on the issue of Palestine-Israel, than in the United States, but it seems that as the voices of American democrats begin to challenge the Israeli Lobby in the US, Americans activists are now opening the debate wider than was previously conceivable.
From professors, to politicians, to street activists, there seems to be a sense of fear when it comes to speaking about Israel in the United Kingdom. People risk the possibility of enduring a relentless campaign, from groups who will aim for nothing less than the destruction of lives for ones choice to speak about Palestinian suffering.
Despite the effect that the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism has had on pro-Palestinian activism, advocacy for Palestinian human rights is not going away anytime soon and the steadfastness and successes of the likes of the BDS campaign have not been overshadowed or defeated, by the claim that those involved are anti-Semites. So the struggle for Palestinian human rights goes on.
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