In France, pro-Palestinian solidarity is being silenced and criminalised (opens in new tab)

The government’s deeply illiberal ‘Yadan bill’ may be dead. But the threat to legitimate protest certainly is notTensions in France over how to respond to a rise in antisemitism have been running high. A government-backed bill that aimed to deal with the problem was rightly denounced as an attack on freedom of expression before being quietly shelved by the government last month., a member of the national assembly, the draft legislation was intended to counter “new forms of antisemitism”. But ...