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A Swedish scholar who described the October 7th atrocities as part of a “fundamentally beautiful liberation struggle” appeared on BBC Radio 4 on Oct. 30 to discuss his exclusion from Britain.
Andreas Malm, a senior lecturer at Lund University, joined the Today broadcast after Britain’s Home Office informed him that his presence was “not conducive to the public good,” according to the BBC. He is the author of the 2021 book How to Blow Up a Pipeline, as well as the 2025 book The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of the Earth.
Malm gave a lecture in Stockholm two months after the October 7th attack. The Daily Mail quoted him as claiming that “[we] haven’t seen conclusive proof that Hamas actually ordered its fighters to kill civilians.”
JNS quoted him as saying, “I think that if you live in a concentration camp and you’re absolutely unable to move anywhere out of it. Then finally you have this paraglider and you managed for the first time fly out of the concentration camp and you land among people who are dancing… You would probably in that moment express the anger that you have inside you with some unplanned destructive violence against civilians.”
On October 7, 2023, Hamas-led terrorists invaded Israel, killing roughly 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages into Gaza. They murdered children, burned entire families alive in their homes, and raped their victims. Recovered Hamas orders explicitly instructed attackers to kill and capture as many civilians as possible. A map of Kibbutz Be’eri numbered individual homes and marked attack zones. Terrorists filmed their atrocities under instructions to record the violence. These orders, maps, and recordings document the deliberate targeting of civilians in a planned massacre — directly contradicting Malm’s portrayal of “unplanned destructive violence.”
The Daily Mail cited Alex Hearn, co-director of Labour Against Antisemitism, as saying, “Malm has repeatedly voiced support for Hamas’s actions on October 7. Barring him from entering the U.K. was the correct decision. It is therefore all the more troubling that the BBC gave him a platform on Radio 4‘s ‘Today’ program, where his views went unchallenged. It is also not the first time extremist voices have been given airtime by the broadcaster our license fee funds, with little scrutiny.”
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