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A 19-year-old Royal Holloway student โ Brodie Mitchell โ was suspended after a Freshersโ Fair exchange with an anti-Zionist activist who called him a โwannabe Jewโ.
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He responded by asking why she was wearing a โtea towelโ โ referring to the keffiyeh-style head-dress she was wearing.
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The university suspended Brodie, locked him out of campus and his accommodation โ despite having no contractual right to do so โ and launched major misconduct proceedings that could have led to his expulsion.
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While Brodie faced disciplinary action and serious disruption to his studies, the other student continued attending campus as normal.
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The process was deeply unfair and a blatant example of double standards for speech on campus. Royal Holloway was allowed legal representation at the hearing โ but Brodie was not.
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Now the university is spending vast sums on lawyers to defend its actions in the High Court โ wildly disproportionate to the case and seemingly designed to bully a 19-year-old student out of the litigation. Royal Hollowayโs conduct is, in our view, disgraceful and intolerable. The Free Speech Union is proud to stand by Brodie in fighting back against this attempt to bully him.
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With the support of the Free Speech Union, Brodie is now back on campus โ but under onerous conditions restricting who he can talk to and what he can say. Royal Holloway proposes that Brodie face expulsion for any further breach of university rules, no matter how minor.
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The enactment of the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023 was a step-change in the protection of freedom of speech on English campuses. โBusiness as usualโ is no longer good enough โ universities need to get serious about tolerating their studentsโ free speech. Royal Holloway, however, does not seem to have received the memo. It is time to remind them, forcibly, of their duties.
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We are challenging the restrictions and asking the regulator to investigate. To help Brodie, and other FSU members in similar predicaments, please give to our legal defence fund. Any donation you make will go into a general fund which will pay for the best legal representation for members under threat.
๐ฃ๐จThe Free Speech Union is mounting a legal challenge against the Government over its official definition of Islamophobia โ now repackaged as 'anti-Muslim hatred' โ and its appointment of a new 'tsar' to punish people who fall foul of it.
This amounts to a Muslim blasphemy law via the back door. The definition is vague and subjective, and will be weaponised to silence legitimate criticism and debate about Islam, Muslims, and Islamic practices and history.
The FSUโs General Secretary, Lord Young of Acton, said: โThis is the most serious threat to free speech the Government has come up with so far โ the only area in which itโs achieving any success.
โIf we donโt win this fight, tens of thousands of people a year could lose their jobs at the say-so of a Labour-appointed โtsarโ. Itโs dystopian.โ
Public bodies will adopt this definition โ despite it being non-statutory โ with the same zeal the police have shown in investigating and recording non-crime hate incidents (NCHIs). It is predicted by one of the drafters of the definition that it could lead to around 20,000 reports of 'anti-Muslim hostility' a year. At present, the number of recorded anti-Muslim hate crimes is around 4,000.
In a free society, no religion should be shielded from legitimate criticism. This proposal places one faith above the rest.
The Free Speech Union is bringing a legal challenge on two grounds.
First, the definition relies on nebulous, legally undefined terms such as โnegative and prejudicial stereotyping of Muslimsโ, making it incoherent and irrational โ and ripe for weaponisation.
Second, adopting such a definition cuts across legislation already enacted by Parliament and therefore breaches the public law principle known as โoccupying the fieldโ. Under this established public law doctrine, new regulations, put in place by ministers, must not replace existing legislation. It is constitutionally unlawful. In this case, the body responsible for protecting Muslims from discrimination is the Equality and Human Rights Commission, not an anti-Muslim hostility 'tsar'.
Parliament voted to abolish blasphemy laws 18 years ago. We can't let this Government resurrect them via the back door.
This is one of the biggest battles the Free Speech Union has ever taken on in its six years โ and we need your help. Judicial reviews are expensive, but this is a fight we felt we had to take on.
Donate to our crowdfunder below๐