(Jewish News) A student accused of expressing support for Hamas and the 7 October attacks two days after the massacre has appeared at the Old Bailey, denying two charges of expressing “an opinion or belief in support of a proscribed organisation.”
Sarah Cotte, a French national, was the secretary of the “Fight Racism, Fight Imperialism” society at the School of Oriental and African Studies in October 2023, when Hamas infiltrated Israel, murdering 1,200 and taking 250 people captive.
In a speech given on 9 October 2023 at SOAS, she reportedly said: “We express our unconditional solidarity with the Palestinian armed resistance who have broken free from their open air prison in Gaza and are rising across an occupied country, against the Zionist state which has been bleeding Palestine dry for nearly eighty years.”
