#freedomofassembly — Public Fediverse posts
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The right to gather doesn’t fail only when it is removed.
It also fails when the conditions that make gathering possible - shared awareness, visibility, overlap - are no longer reliably there.
A right can exist in law and still lose its force in practice.
https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/right-to-gather-algorithm-age?r=6l8ed8
#HumanRights #DigitalDemocracy #FreedomOfAssembly #Algorithms #MediaLiteracy #CivicEngagement #EUCharter #Democracy #TechAndSociety
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"Two days after an ICE agent shot and killed Renée Good in Minneapolis, Rep. Roger Williams issued an ultimatum to the Trump administration’s critics in Minnesota and beyond."
#FreedomOfSpeach #FreedomOfAssembly #Demonstrate #Protest #ICE
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/trump-renee-good-ice-roger-williams-wesley-hunt-first-amendment/ -
Tensions are flaring in the #Minneapolis area, as #protesters & “law enforcement” clash after an #ICE agent fatally shot a woman yesterday. #PepperBalls have been fired toward a crowd of #demonstrators outside a federal building, with agents also deploying a #gas-like substance.
#ReneeNicoleGood #Trump #law #murder #ExtraJudicialKillings #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #CivilRights #fascism #tyranny #Sturmabteilung #RESIST
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/minneapolis-ice-shooting-01-08-26?post-id=cmk5j135v00053b6pazaw785p -
#Trump said he’s dropping—for now—his push to deploy #NationalGuard troops in #Chicago, #LosAngeles & #Portland, OR, a move that comes after several legal roadblocks enjoined his effort.
Trump said in a social media post Wednesday that he’s removing the Guard troops for now. “We will come back, perhaps in a much different & stronger form, when crime begins to soar again - Only a question of time!” he wrote.
#law #PosseComitatusAct #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #authoritarianism #military
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Faith leaders arrested, 21 people detained at #ICE processing center in #Broadview, #Chicago area, #Illinois. The photo of #Evanston’s Lake St church pastor…
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US District Court Judge Sara Ellis said she will issue a sweeping injunction limiting the #UseOfForce by federal #immigration agents in the #Chicago area after she found a litany of violations were committed in recent weeks.
Ellis on Thursday painstakingly detailed instances across the Chicago area in which #BorderPatrol agents used force against residents in violation of her #TRO.
#law #PoliceBrutality #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #FreeSpeech #TrumpLies #Trump
https://news.wttw.com/2025/11/06/federal-judge-says-border-patrol-chief-greg-bovino-lied-about-being-hit-rock-deploying -
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🚨🚨 A federal judge rules she will GRANT "in part" a request by the state of #Illinois for a temporary restraining order [#TRO] against the deployment of #NationalGuard troops into the state.
U.S. District Judge April Perry has yet to outline the details of her order.
#Trump #Chicago #law #PosseComitatusAct #MilitaryState #MartialLaw #immigration #FreedomOfAssembly #RightToProtest #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny #WhiteSupremacy
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This is the reason why #Trump labeled #Antifa a #terrorist organization. So he could send #military into #BlueCities where there are #protests. Because it is amorphous, he can call whatever he wants “Antifa” it’s not like #SCOTUS will stop him.
#law #PosseComitatusAct #democracy #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #authoritarianism #tyranny #Gestapo #AmericanAutocracy #military #USTroops #immigration #protests #resist
https://apnews.com/article/trump-federal-troops-portland-oregon-f8659de72f28289ef22bd924d149a52f?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-09-27-Breaking+News -
A 3-judge panel of the San Francisco-based #9thCircuit Court of Appeals extended a pause it placed on US District Judge Charles Breyer's June 12 ruling that #Trump had called the #NationalGuard into #federal service unlawfully.
#law #Title10 #PosseComitatusAct #Constitution #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #LosAngeles #California #protests #military #ExecutiveOverreach #AbuseOfPower
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#NEW #HumanRights data on #HongKong from Human Rights Measurement Initiative, Hong Kong’s empowerment right has dropped to 2.4 out of 10. Restrictions on #FreedomofExpression, #FreedomofAssociation & #FreedomofAssembly are similar to #China’s. Also, #TransnationalRepression:
https://rightstracker.org/country/HKG?tab=report-empowerment -
#NEW #HumanRights data on #HongKong from Human Rights Measurement Initiative, Hong Kong’s empowerment right has dropped to 2.4 out of 10. Restrictions on #FreedomofExpression, #FreedomofAssociation & #FreedomofAssembly are similar to #China’s. Also, #TransnationalRepression:
https://rightstracker.org/country/HKG?tab=report-empowerment -
#NEW #HumanRights data on #HongKong from Human Rights Measurement Initiative, Hong Kong’s empowerment right has dropped to 2.4 out of 10. Restrictions on #FreedomofExpression, #FreedomofAssociation & #FreedomofAssembly are similar to #China’s. Also, #TransnationalRepression:
https://rightstracker.org/country/HKG?tab=report-empowerment -
#NEW #HumanRights data on #HongKong from Human Rights Measurement Initiative, Hong Kong’s empowerment right has dropped to 2.4 out of 10. Restrictions on #FreedomofExpression, #FreedomofAssociation & #FreedomofAssembly are similar to #China’s. Also, #TransnationalRepression:
https://rightstracker.org/country/HKG?tab=report-empowerment -
#NEW #HumanRights data on #HongKong from Human Rights Measurement Initiative, Hong Kong’s empowerment right has dropped to 2.4 out of 10. Restrictions on #FreedomofExpression, #FreedomofAssociation & #FreedomofAssembly are similar to #China’s. Also, #TransnationalRepression:
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As the #DC #military parade took place, hundreds of #protesters stood outside the federal building in downtown #LosAngeles. People had been dancing around, before hundreds of cops circled the 4-block square without warning or announcement, leading to a tense stand-off, acc/to a Rolling Stone reporter on the ground. #FlashBang #grenades went off, & police used #TearGas & smoke grenades to clear protesters.
#Trump #law #democracy #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfAssembly #RightToProtest #AmericanAutocracy
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God bless this big, beautiful day across America.
#NoKings #NKD #USA #protest #freedomofspeech #freedomofassembly #constitution #Jesus
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1/3🧵- It''s funny/not funny that so many people refuse to acknowledge #fascism when it arises near them (#israel #uspol ), just because in their heads fascism can only be in black & white with a weird nasal diction through a gramophone. When the signs are there, end of #freedomofpress end of #freedomofassembly, end of #freespeech and replacing #education with #propaganda, creation of #secondclasscitizens and systematisation of #racism, this IS fascism!
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The State of #California has filed its lawsuit challenging the #Trump administration’s decision to send #troops under #federal control into #LosAngeles in the name of protecting #immigration agents from #protesters.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.450934/gov.uscourts.cand.450934.1.0.pdf
#law #10thAmendment #APA #Title10 #PosseComitatusAct #democracy #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #authoritarianism #tyranny #Gestapo #AmericanAutocracy #NationalGuard #Marines #immigration
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The activation of #Marines came the same day #California sued the #Trump admin over the deployment of #NationalGuard #troops in #LosAngeles.
In their lawsuit, California #Governor #GavinNewsom & state AG Rob Bonta said Trump's activation of the Guard violated the #10thAmendment of the US #Constitution because Newsom did not ask for the #troops.
#law #Title10 #PosseComitatusAct #democracy #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #authoritarianism #tyranny #Gestapo #AmericanAutocracy #immigration
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Video via Reuters
There are more press members than #protesters. The protesters are nowhere near the #NationalGuard physically. Yet #RubberBullets, #TearGas & #FlashBang #grenades.
#Trump #law #Title10 #PosseComitatusAct #UseOfForce #RulesOfEngagement #Proportionality #democracy #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #authoritarianism #tyranny #Gestapo #AmericanAutocracy #LosAngeles #California #USTroops #immigration
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A MSNBC reporter on the scene said the #NationalGuard fired the #TearGas when #protesters were only approaching them. Approaching. That’s it. No other provocation.
#Trump #law #Title10 #PosseComitatusAct #UseOfForce #RulesOfEngagement #Proportionality #democracy #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #authoritarianism #tyranny #Gestapo #AmericanAutocracy #LosAngeles #California #USTroops #immigration
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#Trump just spoke to reporters. During questioning about what #NationalGuard #troops were authorized to do he said:
“If they spit, we hit.”
That is 100% NOT how law enforcement is supposed to respond.
The #UseOfForce is limited by #proportionality.
#law #Title10 #PosseComitatusAct #democracy #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #authoritarianism #tyranny #Gestapo #AmericanAutocracy #LosAngeles #California #NationalGuard #USTroops #immigration
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On Saturday, law enforcement officers used #FlashBang #grenades, #TearGas & #RubberBullets as they clashed with #protesters who came to the area in Paramount, which had been rumored to be the site of an #immigration operation.
There were hundreds of protesters when the #demonstrations peaked during the day, but their numbers dwindled in the evening. Several dozen were still protesting at 6PM.
#Trump #law #democracy #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #authoritarianism #tyranny #Gestapo
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#Trump to Send #NationalGuard to #LA to *Quell* #Immigration #Protests
Federal immigration officials squared off with protesters in #LosAngeles County on Saturday using #TearGas & #FlashBang #grenades. The unrest comes just a day after #ICE #raids were conducted through the city of Los Angeles.
#law #democracy #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #authoritarianism #tyranny #Gestapo #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/07/us/la-immigration-raid-protests?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare -
Early in the standoff, some #protesters hurled chunks of broken concrete toward officers, & #LAPD responded by firing volleys of #TearGas & #PepperSpray. Police also fired "flash-bang" #concussion rounds. It was not clear whether there were any immediate arrests.
An LAPD spox, Drake Madison, told Reuters that police on the scene had declared an unlawful assembly, meaning that those who failed to leave the area were subject to arrest.
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This is what happens when you don't have freedom of speech or assembly. When are the #British going to wake the fuck up and demand those rights be ensconced in your Constitution or whatever is used over there?
#Charged with a fucking #terrorism #offense/ #offence for #flying a #pro-Palestinian #flag.
What a fucking shame and #disgrace. This really makes Chuck look like a fucking asshole since all of these prosecutions are being done in his name. #UKpol #FreedomOfSpeech #FreedomOfPress #FreedomOfAssembly #KingCharlesIII #Israel #GazaGenocide #PalestinianGenocide #FreePalestine #FreeGaza #FuckTheBritishPolice #ACAB
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/europe/kneecap-liam-ohanna-charged-latam-intl -
This is what happens when you don't have freedom of speech or assembly. When are the #British going to wake the fuck up and demand those rights be ensconced in your Constitution or whatever is used over there?
#Charged with a fucking #terrorism #offense/ #offence for #flying a #pro-Palestinian #flag.
What a fucking shame and #disgrace. This really makes Chuck look like a fucking asshole since all of these prosecutions are being done in his name. #UKpol #FreedomOfSpeech #FreedomOfPress #FreedomOfAssembly #KingCharlesIII #Israel #GazaGenocide #PalestinianGenocide #FreePalestine #FreeGaza #FuckTheBritishPolice #ACAB
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/europe/kneecap-liam-ohanna-charged-latam-intl -
This is what happens when you don't have freedom of speech or assembly. When are the #British going to wake the fuck up and demand those rights be ensconced in your Constitution or whatever is used over there?
#Charged with a fucking #terrorism #offense/ #offence for #flying a #pro-Palestinian #flag.
What a fucking shame and #disgrace. This really makes Chuck look like a fucking asshole since all of these prosecutions are being done in his name. #UKpol #FreedomOfSpeech #FreedomOfPress #FreedomOfAssembly #KingCharlesIII #Israel #GazaGenocide #PalestinianGenocide #FreePalestine #FreeGaza #FuckTheBritishPolice #ACAB
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/europe/kneecap-liam-ohanna-charged-latam-intl -
This is what happens when you don't have freedom of speech or assembly. When are the #British going to wake the fuck up and demand those rights be ensconced in your Constitution or whatever is used over there?
#Charged with a fucking #terrorism #offense/ #offence for #flying a #pro-Palestinian #flag.
What a fucking shame and #disgrace. This really makes Chuck look like a fucking asshole since all of these prosecutions are being done in his name. #UKpol #FreedomOfSpeech #FreedomOfPress #FreedomOfAssembly #KingCharlesIII #Israel #GazaGenocide #PalestinianGenocide #FreePalestine #FreeGaza #FuckTheBritishPolice #ACAB
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/europe/kneecap-liam-ohanna-charged-latam-intl -
New filing yesterday in #MahmoudKhalil's case: Petitioner’s Supplemental Brief Regarding Vagueness Claims
The #Trump policy of targeting #noncitizens who speak out for #Palestinian rights & #MarcoRubio's use of the "foreign policy ground" for #deportation are impermissibly vague, & violate #FirstAmendment & #FifthAmendment rights.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.njd.564334/gov.uscourts.njd.564334.233.0.pdf
#law #Constitution #immigration #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfAssembly #RightToProtest #CivilRights #Dictatorship #AmericanAutocracy #AbuseOfPower
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With further entry to the library barred, a growing crowd of #demonstrators outside the building moved to the streets just beyond the campus gates.
One #student org representing the #protesters said on social media that school security had assaulted demonstrators & acknowledged that some activists had refused to show their IDs to ofcls.
#democracy #dissent #law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfAssembly #RightToProtest #ColumbiaUniversity #Palestinians #Israel #Gaza #war
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#RümeysaÖztürk's attorneys include in their filing that her arrest & detention — without any notice — is not a necessary or usual part of #visa revocation but an experience "designed to #silence her, #punish her for her #speech, & ensure that other #students will be chilled from expressing pro-#Palestinian viewpoints."
#immigration #law #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #FreeSpeech #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #ThoughtPolice #dissent #NaziState #Trump
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American Association of University Professors [#AAUP] v. #Rubio
A case challenging the #Trump administration’s policy of ideological deportation.
"On March 25, 2025, the Knight Institute filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s policy of arresting, detaining, and deporting noncitizen students and faculty who participate in pro-Palestinian activism. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), AAUP’s #Harvard, #NYU, and #Rutgers campus chapters, and the #MiddleEastStudies Association, argues that the policy chills noncitizens from speaking and, by extension, robs these organizations and their U.S. citizen members of noncitizens’ perspectives on a matter of significant public debate.
"The lawsuit responds to a climate of repression and fear on university campuses. Federal agencies are attempting to deport multiple individuals for their #ProPalestinian advocacy, including #MahmoudKhalil, a leader of protests at Columbia University. These actions have sent chills through the community of noncitizen students and faculty on campuses around the country, causing some to pull out of academic conferences, stay home from #protests, and withdraw from other forms of public advocacy and engagement.
"The lawsuit alleges that the administration’s policy of ideological deportation violates the First Amendment right of the plaintiffs to hear from and associate with noncitizen students and faculty, that it is unconstitutionally vague, and that it violates the Administrative Procedure Act. The suit seeks a court order declaring that the policy is unlawful and enjoining the federal government from enforcing it."
Status: Complaint filed on March 25, 2025.
Case Information: American Association of University Professors v. Rubio, No. 1:25-cv-10685 (D.Mass).
https://knightcolumbia.org/cases/aaup-v-rubio
#YunseoChung #RightToProtest #SilencingDissent #USPol #CharacteristicsOfFascism #law
#immigration #FreeSpeech #MarcoRubio #Trump #FreedomOfAssembly #Authoritarianism #Palestine #CriminalizingDissent #HigherEducation -
Looks like the American Association of University Professors agrees with me!
#AAUP, Allies Sue over #Trump Policy of Arresting and Threatening to Deport #Students and #Faculty for #LawfulSpeech
"The national AAUP; chapters at #Harvard, #Rutgers, and #NYU; and the #MiddleEastStudies Association today filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests, detentions, and deportations of noncitizen students and faculty members who participate in #ProPalestinian #protests and other protected #FirstAmendment activities.
"We believe that the administration’s ideological-deportation policy violates the First Amendment by targeting constitutionally protected speech that Americans have a right to hear and engage with. The policy has created a climate of fear and repression on campuses around the country. We are represented in the case by the #KnightFirstAmendmentInstitute at #ColumbiaUniversity, #AhilanArulanantham, and Zimmer, Citron & Clarke LLP.
"Following executive orders issued by President Trump in January, the federal agencies that enforce immigration laws have arrested and detained several people associated with U.S. colleges and universities, including a legal permanent resident, on the basis of constitutionally protected speech and association.
"Today’s filing argues that the ideological-deportation policy has created a climate of #repression and intense fear on university #campuses, 'terrorizing students and faculty for their exercise of First Amendment rights in the past, intimidating them from exercising those rights now, and silencing political viewpoints that the government disfavors.'
"'The Trump administration is going after international #scholars and students who speak their minds about #Palestine, but make no mistake: they won't stop there. They'll come next for those who teach the history of #slavery or who provide #GenderAffirming health care or who research #ClimateChange or who counsel students about their reproductive choices. We all have to draw a line together—as the old labor movement slogan says: an injury to one is an injury to all,' says AAUP President Todd Wolfson.
"'The First Amendment means the government can’t arrest, detain, or deport people for lawful political expression—it’s as simple as that. This practice is one we’d ordinarily associate with the most repressive political regimes, and it should have no place in our democracy,' says #JameelJaffer, executive director at the Knight First Amendment Institute."
Source:
https://www.aaup.org/news/aaup-allies-sue-over-trump-policy-arresting-and-threatening-deport-students-and-faculty-lawful
#RightToProtest #SilencingDissent #USPol #CharacteristicsOfFascism #law
#immigration #FreeSpeech #MarcoRubio #Trump #FreedomOfAssembly #Authoritarianism #Palestine #CriminalizingDissent #HigherEducation -
This rerouting of the march is not an abuse of freedom of expression and freedom of assembly.
As Sinn Fein said in their 1996 submission to the review on parades in Northern Ireland
>> The right to march is a democratic right. It is fundamental to the civil and human rights of all citizens.
The right to march involves freedom of assembly and freedom of political expression.
The right to march is not absolute, it is a right which carries responsibilities; it is a right which must not be misused.
In any society, especially a divided society, the right to march must be exercised with due regard for the rights of others. <<
The right of the PSC to march is an important right that must be upheld, even though those marches' expression of hatred for Israel and its people is repugnant and militates against a political settlement that respects the legitimate rights of both the Israeli and Palestinian peoples.
Nevertheless, the exercise of this right must be balanced against the right of Jews to practice their religion free from intimidation and disruption.
Rerouting the march achieves this balance.
#IsraelPalestine #PalestineSolidarityCampaign #Jews #BritishJews #London #FreedomOfAssembly #FreedomOfReligion #Demonstrations #Parades
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This rerouting of the march is not an abuse of freedom of expression and freedom of assembly.
As Sinn Fein said in their 1996 submission to the review on parades in Northern Ireland
>> The right to march is a democratic right. It is fundamental to the civil and human rights of all citizens.
The right to march involves freedom of assembly and freedom of political expression.
The right to march is not absolute, it is a right which carries responsibilities; it is a right which must not be misused.
In any society, especially a divided society, the right to march must be exercised with due regard for the rights of others. <<
The right of the PSC to march is an important right that must be upheld, even though those marches' expression of hatred for Israel and its people is repugnant and militates against a political settlement that respects the legitimate rights of both the Israeli and Palestinian peoples.
Nevertheless, the exercise of this right must be balanced against the right of Jews to practice their religion free from intimidation and disruption.
Rerouting the march achieves this balance.
#IsraelPalestine #PalestineSolidarityCampaign #Jews #BritishJews #London #FreedomOfAssembly #FreedomOfReligion #Demonstrations #Parades
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This rerouting of the march is not an abuse of freedom of expression and freedom of assembly.
As Sinn Fein said in their 1996 submission to the review on parades in Northern Ireland
>> The right to march is a democratic right. It is fundamental to the civil and human rights of all citizens.
The right to march involves freedom of assembly and freedom of political expression.
The right to march is not absolute, it is a right which carries responsibilities; it is a right which must not be misused.
In any society, especially a divided society, the right to march must be exercised with due regard for the rights of others. <<
The right of the PSC to march is an important right that must be upheld, even though those marches' expression of hatred for Israel and its people is repugnant and militates against a political settlement that respects the legitimate rights of both the Israeli and Palestinian peoples.
Nevertheless, the exercise of this right must be balanced against the right of Jews to practice their religion free from intimidation and disruption.
Rerouting the march achieves this balance.
#IsraelPalestine #PalestineSolidarityCampaign #Jews #BritishJews #London #FreedomOfAssembly #FreedomOfReligion #Demonstrations #Parades
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This rerouting of the march is not an abuse of freedom of expression and freedom of assembly.
As Sinn Fein said in their 1996 submission to the review on parades in Northern Ireland
>> The right to march is a democratic right. It is fundamental to the civil and human rights of all citizens.
The right to march involves freedom of assembly and freedom of political expression.
The right to march is not absolute, it is a right which carries responsibilities; it is a right which must not be misused.
In any society, especially a divided society, the right to march must be exercised with due regard for the rights of others. <<
The right of the PSC to march is an important right that must be upheld, even though those marches' expression of hatred for Israel and its people is repugnant and militates against a political settlement that respects the legitimate rights of both the Israeli and Palestinian peoples.
Nevertheless, the exercise of this right must be balanced against the right of Jews to practice their religion free from intimidation and disruption.
Rerouting the march achieves this balance.
#IsraelPalestine #PalestineSolidarityCampaign #Jews #BritishJews #London #FreedomOfAssembly #FreedomOfReligion #Demonstrations #Parades
