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Harriet Williamson✓

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reporter & commissioning editor @novaramedia signal: harrietw.42

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    RT @AaronBastani: This is pretty extraordinary. Regular people being arrested for saying the same thing as Sarah Helm, wife of Jonathan Powell - the government’s national security advisor. Except the Met aren’t bothered with her 🤔 End this madness @andyburnham!
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    RT @pauleholden: Really good reporting from Novara, @harriepw and @StevenJMethven here as more people get arrested for holding signs in London. Really struck by the moral clarity and intelligence of these protestors. Notable that these voices are never heard from in the mainstream; so valuable Novara is making them available.
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    "You don’t have to be a genius, really, to work out what’s going on here.” On Wednesday, the last possible legal challenge on British soil of Palestine Action’s proscription began at the supreme court. Dozens of protesters were arrested for holding signs quoting the author Sarah Helm, wife of the prime minister’s national security advisor Jonathan Powell. That’s despite the fact that the Met police chose not to take action against Helm, exposing a glaring double standard. Novara Media’s @harriepw reports from London.
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    "You don’t have to be a genius, really, to work out what’s going on here.” On Wednesday, the last possible legal challenge on British soil of Palestine Action’s proscription began at the supreme court. Dozens of protesters were arrested for holding signs quoting the author Sarah Helm, wife of the prime minister’s national security advisor Jonathan Powell. That’s despite the fact that the Met police chose not to take action against Helm, exposing a glaring double standard. Novara Media’s @harriepw reports from London.
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    RT @DefendOurJuries: To be clear, nobody here is asking the Met to arrest Sarah Helm. Nobody should be arrested for supporting Palestine Action because Palestine Action is not, in any sensible or honest person's mind, a terrorist organisation.
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    "You don’t have to be a genius, really, to work out what’s going on here.” On Wednesday, the last possible legal challenge on British soil of Palestine Action’s proscription began at the supreme court. Dozens of protesters were arrested for holding signs quoting the author Sarah Helm, wife of the prime minister’s national security advisor Jonathan Powell. That’s despite the fact that the Met police chose not to take action against Helm, exposing a glaring double standard. Novara Media’s @harriepw reports from London.
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    The chaotic, uneven enforcement of the Palestine Action ban highlights how unworkable it ultimately is – and its entirely chilling effect on free expression and peaceful assembly
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    "You don’t have to be a genius, really, to work out what’s going on here.” On Wednesday, the last possible legal challenge on British soil of Palestine Action’s proscription began at the supreme court. Dozens of protesters were arrested for holding signs quoting the author Sarah Helm, wife of the prime minister’s national security advisor Jonathan Powell. That’s despite the fact that the Met police chose not to take action against Helm, exposing a glaring double standard. Novara Media’s @harriepw reports from London.
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    RT @novaramedia: Author Sarah Helm wrote on X last month: “God help us authors who support Palestine and Palestine Action”. The Met police chose not to take action against her. But when retirees, health workers, the children of Holocaust survivors, a CBE and a professor held up signs quoting her outside the supreme court today, they were all promptly arrested on suspicion of supporting a proscribed terrorist organisation. @harriepw reports from outside the supreme court in London:
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    NEW: Google UK is accused of signing a “sweetheart deal” with an employer-friendly union that has a “laughably low membership” in the company to undermine Googlers’ ability to organise
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    RT @DefendOurJuries: Palestine Action Protesters Arrested for Quoting Wife of Prime Minister’s Advisor as the controversial ban goes to Supreme Court Retirees, health workers, the children of Holocaust survivors, a CBE and a professor held signs quoting the writer Sarah Helm
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    Presented without comment, from today’s appeal against the ban on Palestine Action at the Supreme Court
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    NEW: Read my full report for @novaramedia on what went down outside the Supreme Court today as peaceful protesters were arrested for ... quoting the wife of the PM's national security advisor
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    BREAKING: Around 30 peaceful protesters have been arrested outside the Supreme Court for holding signs objecting to the ban on Palestine Action - using the words of a recent post by Sarah Helm, wife of the govt’s national security advisor (which police determined “did not meet the criminal threshold”)
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    Tom Southerden, law & human rights director @AmnestyUK, said: “Today was another demonstration of the chaos wrought by the Government’s grave misuse of terrorism powers to proscribe Palestine Action. “Whatever the Supreme Court ultimately decides, it’s long past time for the government to admit they got this badly wrong, end the proscription of Palestine Action and put a stop to these appalling arrests.”
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    RT @HudaAmmori: Our challenge of the Palestine Action ban at the Supreme Court will begin shortly - at 10.30AM. We are arguing that the ban is disproportionate to free speech and the right to protest, so it must be quashed. Live link: I will also be live posting below.
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    This lady’s sign directly references the double standard in the Met’s enforcement of the controversial Palestine Action ban
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    BREAKING: Metropolitan police officers are arresting peaceful sign holders outside the Supreme Court in London for holding placards with essentially the SAME wording as a recent tweet by Sarah Helm, wife of the government’s National Security Adviser, that they took NO ACTION OVER
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    NEW: approx 30 peaceful protesters have gathered outside the Supreme Court in London to protest the ban on Palestine Action. Most hold signs reading variations on Sarah Helm’s tweet - substituting the word “authors” for their own signifiers
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    Placards include: “God help us Jews who support Palestine and Palestine Action” and “god help us sons of Holocaust survivors who support Palestine and Palestine Action”
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    The gentleman with the “son of a Holocaust survivor” sign has been arrested
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    Are the words on this gentleman’s paper sign only an offence if you’re not Sarah Helm and married to the UK government’s national security advisor ?
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    A metropolitan police officer told me that they “don’t determine guilt” and arrests are being made “because there are reasonable grounds to suspect an offence is being committed”
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    Harry Potter star Alfie Enoch is supporting the protest against the ban on Palestine Action today
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