Britain cancels the travel permit for a Swedish academic ahead of the pro-Palestine panel in London The British Home Office canceled the electronic travel permit (time of arrival) of prominent Swedish academic and author Andreas Malm, and banned him from entering the UK just days before a planned public appearance in London, reports Al Jazeera. An official communication issued to Malm by British immigration authorities declared that his "presence in the UK is not considered to be in the public interest", effectively barring the associate professor at Lund University who had traveled regularly to the country for decades. The state-enforced travel ban targeted Malem ahead of a panel event organized by the socialist magazine Tribune, where he was scheduled to speak alongside Huda Amory, co-founder of Palestine Action. British authorities recently banned Palestine from operating as a "terrorist" organization under national security laws, using sweeping counter-terrorism powers to outlaw direct action campaigns aimed at severing British arms links with Israeli forces. Malem publicly condemned the Interior Ministry's decision as a transparent attempt to criminalize solidarity with Palestine, and linked the sudden cancellation to his participation in panel discussions critical of Western military support for Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Britain cancels the travel permit for a Swedish academic ahead of the pro-Palestine panel in London The British Home Office canceled the electronic travel permit (time of arrival) of prominent Swedish academic and author Andreas Malm, and banned him from entering the UK just days before a planned public appearance in London, reports Al Jazeera. An official communication issued to Malm by British immigration authorities declared that his "presence in the UK is not considered to be in the public interest", effectively barring the associate professor at Lund University who had traveled regularly to the country for decades. The state-enforced travel ban targeted Malem ahead of a panel event organized by the socialist magazine Tribune, where he was scheduled to speak alongside Huda Amory, co-founder of Palestine Action. British authorities recently banned Palestine from operating as a "terrorist" organization under national security laws, using sweeping counter-terrorism powers to outlaw direct action campaigns aimed at severing British arms links with Israeli forces. Malem publicly condemned the Interior Ministry's decision as a transparent attempt to criminalize solidarity with Palestine, and linked the sudden cancellation to his participation in panel discussions critical of Western military support for Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza.