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UK police assess Palestine Action post by security adviser’s wife

Middle East Eye16 October 2026, 17:48 UTCUnited Kingdom

UK police assess Palestine Action post by security adviser’s wife British police said on Friday they were assessing a social media post after the wife of National Security Adviser Jonathan Powell appeared to express support for Palestine Action, a pro-Palestinian group which was banned as a "terrorist" organisation by the UK government in July 2025. Journalist and author Sarah Helm, who is married to Powell, responded on X to a post about the Irish novelist Sally Rooney, who this week announced her books would no longer be sold in Britain over her pla

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