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According to Electronic Intifada, "British counterterrorism police on Thursday raided the home and seized several electronic devices belonging to The Electronic Intifada’s associate editor Asa Winstanley. "Approximately 10 officers arrived at Winstanley’s North London home before 6 am and served the journalist with warrants and other papers authorizing them to search his house and vehicle for devices and documents." The police claimed that he was being investigated under the 2006 Terrorism Act, stating that the investigation was related to his social media posts. Asa was not charged, but his devices were seized. This is the latest in a series of repressive acts targeting pro-Palestinian voices, organizations, and individuals, especially those in support of the resistance (a right enshrined in international law), among the most recent of which being Samidoun's designation as a "terrorist entity," the detention of journalists Richard Medhurst, Richard Lofreddo, and Scott Ritter, Meta's restrictions on the 🔻 emoji and the word "zionist", NYU making "zionist" a protected trait, RNN's ban in the EU, and many others. It is worth noting that the raid comes a few days after Asa's article: "How Israel killed hundreds of its own people on 7 October," discussing the zionists' use of the Hannibal Directive.