Lawfare attempt rejected
Cambridge University’s bid for a High Court injunction banning anti-genocide protests from key university sites for five years has failed after the judge rejected the broad bid and granted only a “very narrow and limited court order” against protests at this Saturday’s graduation ceremony.
The High Court judgment comes after Gina Romero, UN Special Rapporteur for the Freedom of Assembly – one of four UN experts to slam Keir Starmer’s government for its abuse of legislation to wage an anti-democratic police and lawfare war on anti-genocide activism and journalism earlier this month – this week called on the university not to try to push through “regulations that contravene international standards [on] human rights protection, and to stop harassing and stigmatising the university-based pro-Palestine solidarity movement”.
Last week Liberty Investigates, the investigative journalism arm of human rights organisation Liberty, published a report condemning the ‘worsening crackdown on free speech’ and particularly free speech about Gaza and Israel’s genocide and other war crimes, that is being conducted by UK universities alongside Starmer’s war on free speech and democracy.
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Serves the pro-genocide lobbyists right [sic!]. Universities NOT as *Seats of Learning*
BUT as Businesses with massive salaries for *Chief Executives*.
F*ck ’em, I say [in good ole Anglo-Saxon].
Despite this victory, it is clear that the Establishment and the Oligarchy are not playing by the Marquis of Queensbury Rules.
In such circumstances, it seems reasonable to consider that some leverage would not go amiss? However, that may (or may not? – depending on one’s point of view) depend on getting one’s hands, let’s go with, a little grubby?
Which brings us to the possibilities inherent in the potential leverage available from current US AG Pam Bondi’s ongoing attempts to wrest the evidence contained in the Epstein files from the reluctant hands of the FBI’s Southern District of New York (SDNY) field office.
What names of the self-identifying ‘great and the good’ – Police Chiefs? Ambassadors? Diplomats? Politicians? Judges? Academics? – are not yet in the public domain, which could undermine those inflicting such punitive action?