Climate academic Andreas Malm barred from entering UK
Summary
UK immigration officials barred Swedish academic Andreas Malm from entering the country, saying his presence “may not be considered to be conducive to the public good.” He was due to speak at a London conference about Palestine Action and appear on a BBC Radio 4 programme; Malm urged the government to reverse the decision.Key Facts
- Malm is an associate professor of human ecology at Lund University in Sweden and wrote How to Blow Up a Pipeline.
- He was scheduled to headline a Tribune magazine conference next week in London.
- Malm was due to speak with Huda Ammori, a co-founder of Palestine Action, which the UK has banned.
- The conference was timed to coincide with the start of a Supreme Court challenge to the ban.
- Sally Rooney, whose books she withdrew from sale in the UK over her support for Palestine Action, criticized the decision to bar Malm.
- The Home Office said it does not discuss individual cases.
- US commentators Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker were also barred from the UK earlier this year on similar grounds.
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