{"id":818449,"date":"2026-10-30T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T08:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/818449\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T08:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T08:00:09","slug":"climate-academic-andreas-malm-barred-from-entering-uk-palestine-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/818449\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate academic Andreas Malm barred from entering UK | Palestine Action"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andreas Malm, the climate academic and author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline, has been blocked from entering the UK before he was due to speak alongside a co-founder of the banned group Palestine Action<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Malm was told by immigration officials his presence in the UK \u201cmay not be considered to be conducive to the public good\u201d. He said the decision was \u201cscandalous\u201d and urged the government to reconsider.<\/p>\n

Malm, an associate professor of human ecology<\/a> at Lund University in Sweden, was due to headline a conference organised by Tribune magazine<\/a> next week on \u201cWashington\u2019s global reign of terror and Britain\u2019s role in reinforcing it\u201d.<\/p>\n

He was due to speak alongside Huda Ammori, a co-founder of Palestine Action. They were expected to discuss the impact of the ban, including its effect on the author Sally Rooney, who has withdrawn her books from sale in the UK<\/a> over her support for the group.<\/p>\n

Rooney said the decision to ban Malm from the UK was a \u201csad and frightening act of cultural self-harm\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Tribune event was timed to coincide with the start of a supreme court challenge to the ban next Wednesday. While in London, Malm was also due to be interviewed for BBC Radio 4\u2019s Radical With Gabriel Gatehouse programme.<\/p>\n

Malm said: \u201cI am deeply dismayed at this sudden ban on travelling to the UK. I have been going to the UK for decades \u2013 this is where I did my archival research for my PhD dissertation and lectured at dozens of universities and participated in even more conferences.\u201d<\/p>\n

Malm urged the government to think again. He said: \u201cOne was under the impression that the Burnham government had slightly more respect for the basic notions of freedom of expression and other democratic rights. I appeal for this decision to be overturned.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Home Office<\/a> said it did not discuss individual cases.<\/p>\n

Rooney said: \u201cAndreas Malm is among the most brilliant and influential intellectuals working in Europe today. For the UK government to deny him entry to Britain is not only an outrageous attack on a respected climate expert, but a sad and frightening act of cultural self-harm.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, the US leftwing commentators Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker were also barred<\/a> from the UK on the same grounds that their presence in the UK \u201cmay not be conducive to the public good\u201d.<\/p>\n

Tribune\u2019s editor, Oliver Eagleton, said: \u201cIronically, Andreas was coming to London to speak at our event about the unprecedented attacks on free speech unleashed by the proscription of Palestine Action, including the effective ban on Sally Rooney\u2019s books, but he has now been banned himself.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is being censored for speaking out about censorship, in truly Orwellian fashion. It is shameful that Andy Burnham\u2019s government is continuing the authoritarian overreach we saw under Keir Starmer, and in this dystopian new reality it is now commonplace in Britain for authors and academics to be treated as terrorists because they support Palestinians facing genocide and the rights of people protesting that genocide.\u201d<\/p>\n

Malm\u2019s books have won international awards and inspired many to take action for environmental justice and Palestinian rights. How to Blow Up a Pipeline <\/a>inspired a film of the same name. He has travelled regularly to Britain to lecture at universities including Oxford, King\u2019s College London and Cambridge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andreas Malm, the climate academic and author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline, has been blocked from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-818449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}