"If the Trump administration succeeds in getting their hands on pro-Palestine donor Fergie Chambers via an extradition request to Spain, it will set a dark precedent for human rights advocates of all kinds.

The United States’ extradition request has rightfully generated opposition. Sumar, whose members include the vice prime minister and labor minister, have opposed it, as have a number of leftist members of the Spanish parliament. Over 150 prominent international activists, including Greta Thunberg, signed a petition opposing it. In Spain, Chambers is represented by Baltasar Garzón, a prominent human rights lawyer who, as a judge, issued an arrest warrant for former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.

The Left in the United States should also rise to the occasion and demand their government drop this extradition. Chambers has certainly been a polarizing figure on the US left, to put it mildly. Many on the Left disagree with many of his views, and Chambers has not been shy about voicing his own criticisms of the US left. But faced with political repression from a Trump administration hoping to both stamp out the Left and willing to aid Israel’s genocide in Gaza, such internal differences of opinion do not matter. The situation is urgent to stand against political repression, not just for Gaza but the entire international left. If the Trump administration succeeds in getting their hands on Chambers, it will set a dark precedent."

https://jacobin.com/2026/10/fergie-chambers-extradition-gaza-speech-repression
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