reporter & commissioning editor @novaramedia signal: harrietw.42
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🚨🇮🇱 NEW: Israel’s election body has voted to ban all Arab parties from running in the upcoming general election
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Harriet Williamson retweeted
"This was pro-Israel teleprompter-read propaganda."
When Ed Sheeran returned to the stage on Saturday in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he opened his show with a statement that framed the genocide in Gaza as a "humanitarian issue."
On Novara Live, @harriepw reacts to what she calls a "dogsh*t apology".
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last word on Ed Sheeran: you can make the most boring art imaginable but you cannot be for everyone. There’s going to come a time when you have to stand on business – & a live-streamed genocide should really qualify as that time
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Harriet Williamson retweeted
it’s just crazy to me when public figures are like “it’s sooo complicated, i can’t weigh in” and the average israeli public official’s twitter is like “i will send every palestinian into a slaughterhouse”
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“Israel does not have a more loyal friend than Robert Kraft.” - Benjamin Netanyahu, 2019
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BREAKING: Burnham's first Labour Party conference will be hit by mass defiance of the ban on direct action group Palestine Action. Hundreds of people are expected to take part in a silent protest holding signs that read: “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.”
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The action is planned for Sunday 27 September – the opening day of conference – by @defendourjuries as part of its Lift the Ban campaign.
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Since Palestine Action was proscribed as a terror group by Keir Starmer’s government, more than 3,600 people have been arrested under section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000 – including elderly and disabled people, religious leaders and medical professionals. Will Burnham break with Starmer's legacy?
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**The ‘ceasefire’ has been violated by Israel 4,000+ times in less than a year.
The UN has verified more than 1,000 Palestinian deaths since the ceasefire came into force in October 2025.
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Harriet Williamson retweeted
Calling all news editors!
Novara Media is looking for temporary support within our social media team. We need a skilled news editor to work two days per week in October and November, and four in December.
The role will primarily involve commissioning and editing short form news copy, but also providing more general editorial support to the section. We are looking for an experienced journalist and editor with excellent news and political judgement.
Please send your CV to [email protected] asap with 'News Editor' in the subject line.
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Harriet Williamson retweeted
"Humanity cannot accept mass funerals of Palestinian children as a reality."
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Congratulations to AI for putting me off food, why is the lower bun made of snakeskin ffs
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the thing that really gets me here is that hurt feelings take precedence over the bodies of 21,000 dead children
Ed Sheeran reportedly told Macklemore that the words “Free Palestine” and the image of the Palestinian flag “hurt” many of the people he spoke with, adding that he doesn’t “take sides.”
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real sense of anti-democratic Starmerite continuity here
Tonight Camden Labour engaged in a wretched spectacle.
The Council was due to debate a motion on Camden's duty to divest its pension fund from companies violating international law. The thrust was to force Camden to divest from companies complicit in Israel's genocide in Gaza.
But the motion was never debated. Instead Labour councillors ran down the clock with meandering interventions. The meeting was promptly adjourned at 22:00.
I was watching the live stream. The moment the meeting adjourned, protestors in the gallery began calling out the stitch-up. The Council immediately cut the live stream. I have no doubt they did so to prevent people seeing and hearing the anger of local residents who have had this issue kicked into the long grass by Labour yet again.
The motion will not come for debate until after the by-election.
This is what they tried to censor: local residents furious that Labour and Sagal Abdi-Wali refuse to do the right thing and immediately divest from genocide.
Camden Labour is ground-zero for Starmerism and the politics of complicity he pioneered.
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With over 80% of the vote!
It's on. I'm running to be the next Green MP for Holborn & St Pancras.
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Harriet Williamson retweeted
More than 100 Palestinians, including 70 children, were buried in Gaza on Sunday, after their bodies were recovered from rubble.
It was the second mass funeral held in a month for Palestinian children killed in Israel’s genocide that has been held in the besieged enclave.
Their bodies were recovered from beneath the rubble of destroyed homes in Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighbourhood, Al Jazeera reported.
Ahmad Alhendawi, Save the Children’s regional director for the Middle East, North Africa and Eastern Europe, said: “These scenes must enrage us. Humanity cannot accept mass funerals of Palestinian children as a reality, and we cannot stand still and watch this continue.
“It’s been 332 days since the 'ceasefire' plan was signed, yet over 300 children have been killed since then. Israeli forces must stop killing, displacing and maiming children.”
The previous mass funeral was held on 4 August, when 112 people, mostly women and children, were buried after their remains were recovered from the wreckage of a residential block in Gaza City’s Sabra neighborhood. They were killed by an Israeli airstrike in November 2023.
The latest mass funeral took place days before British foreign secretary Ed Miliband announced a ban on the import of all goods produced in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
The UK followed its announcement with a joint statement with the foreign ministers of Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Sweden. All countries have agreed to introduce or support similar measures.
Palestinian rights groups and UK politicians have called for these sanctions to be just the first step, with former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn calling on the government to “end all arms sales, all military cooperation, and all forms of support that sustain Israel’s system of apartheid, occupation and genocide”.
Israeli forces continue to kill Palestinians in Gaza despite the ceasefire. Four Palestinians were killed yesterday, including a ten-year-old boy who was shot in the chest when the IDF opened fire towards the tents of displaced families in al-Mawasi, Drop Site News reported.
Israeli tanks and gunboats also reportedly fired across Khan Younis, Rafah, Deir al-Balah and Gaza City.
Israel has killed 1,355 Palestinians and wounded 4,516 since the ceasefire began in October 2025, according to Gaza’s health ministry. More than 73,000 Palestinians – including 21,000 children – have been killed by Israel in Gaza since October 2023.
Thousands of more bodies are believed to remain buried beneath the rubble across Gaza.
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NEW: King's College London used a private security firm run by former military intelligence officials to monitor the campaign in support of a student suspended in relation to pro-Palestine activism.
Usama Ghanem has now been reinstated as a student.
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Read the full report here: novaramedia.com/2026/09/10/k…
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Usama told @novaramedia that King's College London's use of Horus Security Consultancy Ltd to gather intelligence on the student campaign to reinstate him “speaks volumes about the sense of threat KCL perceives from the very students it is meant to serve”.
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