Several months ago, I was contacted by a mother whose daughter had been excluded from school and referred to Prevent for saying “Free Palestine”.  This is just one of many cases we see at Prevent Watch, some of which include young children being referred to counter-terrorism for questioning under Prevent, simply for expressing support for Palestine and Palestinians. In this case, an academically bright and principled teenager who stood for what she believed in was being penalised by a school that should have been nurturing her growth, not silencing her voice. This mother was upset and shocked by the lies that the school had told to cover their backs. She reached out to Prevent Watch for support and as I spoke to her on the phone she repeated the words:  “HasbunAllahu wa ni’ma al-wakeel” – translated as “Allah is enough for us, and He is the best disposer of our affairs.” These words […]