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An 83-year-old priest and a human rights lawyer were among around 25 people arrested for holding signs saying “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action” in Parliament Square today.

The action, by protest group Defend Our Juries, was the first organised challenge to the proscription of Palestine Action, which came into effect at 00.01 this morning.

This is the first time a non-violent, direct action group has been designated a terrorist organisation in the UK.

In an open letter sent to Met police commissioner Mark Rowley on Friday, Defend Our Juries outlined its plans. “We would like to alert you to the fact we may be committing offences under the Terrorism Act tomorrow, Saturday 5 July, in Parliament Square at about 1pm,” it said.

It portrayed the action - which it said would be nonviolent and pose “no risk whatsoever of anyone being harmed” - as both a challenge to the ban and a test of how it will be enforced.

“If we cannot speak freely about the genocide that is occurring, if we cannot condemn those who are complicit in it and express support for those who resist it, then the right to freedom of expression has no meaning, and democracy and human rights in this country are dead,” it said.

Reverend Sue Parfitt, 83, told Novara Media the group was “testing the law”. She said she wasn’t afraid of being arrested. “I know that we are in the right place doing the right thing,” she said. “As my friend Ruth always says, ‘we cannot be bystanders’.”

Minutes later, police began making arrests.

Palestine Action applied to pause the ban in the high court yesterday, but lost both a hearing and an appeal shortly afterwards.

Speaking to the Guardian on Friday, Raza Husain KC, representing Palestine Action founder Huda Ammori, described the decision as “an ill-considered, discriminatory and authoritarian abuse of statutory power”.

The Met did not respond to Novara Media’s request for comment.

5 July 2025

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i don’t know how to explain to you people that no matter what a country’s government is like i do not and will not support the US indiscriminately bombing that country’s civilians and i don’t know why that’s a controversial take tbh

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Girl. I truly blame the Depp trial for this, like we're fucked if mountains of proof can't get a man convicted of sex crimes.

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Harvey Weinstein is out Bill Cosby is out Diddy acquitted of sex trafficking Andrew Tate gets charged with rape & sex trafficking every week in different countries, but literally nothing ever happens Johnny Depp won Neil Gaiman is suing his victims and is probably gonna crush them with his powerful legal team Pedos in the UK found with dozens of child sex abuse images face zero consequences or mere days in jail. Listen, rape is basically legal-so it's best if you just stay away from men.

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“Like, they’re literally just very sweet kids serving their country”

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One main difference between left-wing and right-wing misogyny is that left-wing misogynists deny that sexism is a "real" form of oppression, while right-wing misogynists believe that sexism is real and that it's good for society

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This is why victims don't come forward. The justice system refuses to hold abusers accountable. Women need to start killing their abusers. Dead abusers don't reoffend.

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This is who is leading the NYC mayoral democratic primary rn

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MAMDANI WON THE FUCKING NY MAYOR PRIMARY

THATS RIGHT

AN OPENLY SOCIALIST

OPENLY PRO-PALESTINE

OPENLY PRO-TRANS

MUSLIM SON OF IMMIGRANTS

JUST KICKED THE ASS OF AN ESTABLISHED DEMOCRAT ENDORSED BY BILL FUCKING CLINTON WHO HAD 35 MILLION DOLLARS BACKING HIM

MAMDANI HAD LESS THAN TEN MIL, MOSTLY FROM INDIVIDUAL DONATIONS

BETTER THINGS ARE POSSIBLE. GET INVOLVED AND PRIMARY THE FUCK OUT OF ALL THESE MUSTY OLD DEMS

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forever grateful i was simply too lazy to let the makeup industrial complex get its hooks in me. I was just like im not doing all of that. in fact. im doing none of that

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👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻

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a thing that i particularly love about the hunger games prequels is how it shows that people have been fighting against the games since their inception

when i was younger and read the original trilogy for the first time i was so bothered how it was 74 years of games, i remember thinking how could it have gone on so long without anyone doing anything

these prequels highlight that people have been fighting from the get-go: lucy gray's defiance, reaper ripping down panem's flags to cover the fallen tributes, haymitch's games and how many others shared his ideologies - the capitol just drowns them out, they rewrite their stories so their efforts are forgotten

liberation takes time and it's built upon the actions of those in the past

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every so often the discourse comes around again that basically boils down to “is it feminist for a woman to want men to be attracted to her” and it’s like. no, it’s not. it’s also not anti feminist. it’s not relevant. it’s nothing. a woman wanting to have sex with men has nothing to do with feminism. being a lesbian or celibate is not “more feminist” than being a straight woman. the point was always “women should not have to dress in a way that is attractive to men solely in order to be acknowledged by them at all” not “women should never dress in a way that is attractive to men for any reason.” sometimes a woman wants men to want to have sex with her. that’s not anti feminist. that’s average. it’s also not feminist just because it’s her choice to do it. it is not related. feminism is about women’s human rights. that doesn’t mean it’s a feminist act every time a woman makes a choice.

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When Palestinians resist, they're called "terrorists." When Israel kills tens of thousands of civilians, it's dismissed as "just war." But international law, the Geneva Conventions, and the UN are clear: occupied people have the right to resist, even with arms. Occupiers have no right to defend their occupation.

Update 28/5/2025

Do my children not have the right to education?Or is it because we’re in Gaza, in the middle of war, that we’re expected to stay in tents — dirty, sick, voiceless — just so the world can pity us enough to help?I’m not running away from our reality — I’m confronting it.I refuse to let my children grow up in constant misery just to fit someone else's idea of what "deserving" looks like.Yes, I’m trying to secure a safe home and proper schooling for them.

Not because we aren’t suffering, but because we are — and we’re still choosing dignity.

Resilience isn’t about staying broken. It’s about refusing to collapse.