Motion
- Motion title
- Defend Palestine Solidarity & the Right to Protest
- Session
- 2024-2025
- Meeting link
- Annual Congress
- Meeting date
- 26 May 2025
- Status
- Carried
- Motion
- 64
- Motion text
Congress notes:
1. University of Cambridge’s application for a 5-year injunction restricting
Palestine-related activities near administration buildings; the granting of a
similar 1-year order at the request of University of London in November
2024.
2. Over 100 staff and students nationally face disciplinary action for proPalestine activism.
3. On 18 January, police imposed arbitrary restrictions on a peaceful Palestine
solidarity rally in Whitehall, leading to 77 arrests and the prosecution of
protest organisers.
Congress believes:
a. Crackdowns on Palestine solidarity activism—through police repression, legal
injunctions, and university disciplinary measures—are part of a wider attack
on free expression.
b. Universities and trade unions must resist this suppression.
Congress resolves:
i. To condemn legal injunctions and other measures stifling Palestine activism,
and to actively resist the crackdown by building a national public campaign
with campus unions and relevant stakeholders.
ii. To donate £1000 to Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s legal fund.
- Proposing body
- London regional committee
- Amended
- No
- Allocated to
- Strategy and finance committee (SFC)
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2025/C/05-26/059/64