Defend our Juries: Important letter re Palestine Action case
Posted: 22nd October 2026
The cover of this week’s New Statesman edition is an extraordinary intervention.
Just two weeks ahead of the Supreme Court hearing on the proscription of Palestine Action, many of the world’s leading cultural icons have joined forces to condemn the “ill-conceived and draconian anti-terror legislation” which they describe as “an affront to basic principles of free speech and expression so long taken for granted in this country” and as “repressive absurdity”.
Signatories to the letter include Paul Mescal, Gary Lineker, Arundhati Roy, Naomi Klein, Paul Mescal, JM Coetzee, Tilda Swinton, Susan Sarandon, Tariq Ali, Irvine Welsh, Slavoj Žižek, Jonathan Glazer, Zadie Smith, Julian Barnes, Juliet Stevenson, Kate Nash, Kneecap, Maxine Peake, Michael Frayn, Michael Rosen, Monica Ali, Caryl Churchill, Colm Tóibín, Emily Wilson, William Boyd, William Dalrymple, and Shami Chakrabarti.
We will add to the pressure on 31st October, with our bodies and our signs.Not sure whether to sit?
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We remain defiant in the face of unjust state repression.
In unity not uniformity
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