‘But a key area where Taubira has shown no courage, principle or even a hair’s breadth of difference with the increasingly authoritarian Socialist administration of President François Hollande is over the free speech rights and right to assembly of supporters of Palestinian rights.
On the same day Taubira resigned, French authorities in the Rhône region banned a planned demonstration by a Palestine solidarity group.
Taubira’s justice ministry vigorously enforced a policy, inherited from the previous right-wing government, to prosecute supporters of the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement using hate-speech laws.
This has resulted in harsh penalties and disturbing legal precedents for activists who mounted peaceful protests calling on fellow citizens not buy Israeli products.’
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