Tim Sigsworth, 19 Jan 2026
https://archive.ph/1pYkZ

Sarah Rogers, Donald Trump's free speech tsar, said the arrests were "censoring"
actvism and did "more harm than good".

More than 2,000 people have been arrested for expressing support for Palestine
Action since it was proscribed as a terror group in July last year.

Ms Rogers, the US state department's under-secretary for public diplomacy, said
that the public should be allowed to say they back the group.

"I would have to look at each individual person and each proscribed
organisation," she told Semafor. "I think if you support an organisation like
Hamas, then depending upon whether you're coordinating, there are all these
standards that get applied.

"This Palestine Action group, I've seen it written about. I don't know what it
did. I think if you just merely stand up and say, 'I support Palestine Action',
then unless you are really coordinating with some violent foreign terrorist, I
think that censoring that speech does more harm than good."

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Ms Rogers has been an outspoken critic of Sir Keir Starmer's Government and
freedom of speech in Britain since taking her position in October last year.
She has criticised the Prime Minister for cancelling local elections, curbing
rights to jury trials and not banning cousin marriage.

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She also said British police forces were wrong to arrest people for using the
phrase "globalise the intifada".

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