Two seemingly unconnected things happened this week, one at the Cannes film festival on the French Riviera, the other in the US District Court in Washington. The events concerned two women – Susan Sarandon and Francesca Albanese. So what connects an icon of the screen with an Italian human-rights lawyer, and why does it matter?

Both women have been in the news over the past year for the wrong reasons: Albanese because the US Government attempted to silence her on Palestine; Sarandon because the US film industry attempted to silence her on Palestine.

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