London’s Metropolitan Police faced accusations that they had surrendered to radical pro-Hamas activists over the weekend, threatening to arrest British Jews because their presence was deemed provocative to mobs of anti-Israel protesters. There is.
Shocking video released by the UK Anti-Semitism Movement at a pro-Hamas and anti-Israel march shows a Metropolitan Police officer telling Gideon Falter, the Anti-Semitism Movement’s chief executive, to “publicly be Jewish”. The footage shows him ordering people not to cross the road based on their appearance. . Falter returned from Saturday’s synagogue service wearing a kippah, or skull cap.
London police even threatened to arrest Falter. He accused Falter of “violating the peace with other people.” Falter was with five other people, some of whom were wearing skullcaps.
“What happened to me was shameful,” Falter told Fox News Digital. Imagine how you feel when a police officer tells you that you must leave the scene in distress. ”
Critics say the head of the Metropolitan Police, Sir Mark Rowley, is incapable of bringing order to London’s streets, and there are now growing calls for him to be sacked.
“It’s time for Sir Mark Rowley to go. He must resign or be sacked by the Mayor of London and the Home Secretary,” Falter said.
Mr Falter continued: “Nearly a week after the incident, Lord Mark’s assistant chief justice called my presence ‘provocative’ and said that publicizing what had happened had ‘lost the confidence of many Jewish Londoners. “I hurt him,” he said in a statement.
Mr Falter said: ‘The ensuing outrage has forced the Met to apologize again, this time for their appalling victim blaming, which came from the very top, and from Sir Mark. It shows that, six months later, the Metropolitan University still doesn’t understand that and isn’t going to improve unless there is a change in leadership.”
Mr Falter went on to say: “What happened to me was a six-year-old attack by the Metropolitan Railway, which has restricted the rights of law-abiding Londoners in order to quell a mob infested with anti-Semitic racists and terrorist sympathizers. “It was the inevitable conclusion of months of inertia and the recontextualization of crime.”
Rowley told Fox News Digital: “All of us at the Met are determined to ensure that London is a city where everyone feels safe. Since the terrorist attacks against Israel, we have , I completely understand how vulnerable Jewish and Muslim Londoners feel, and some of our actions exacerbate this concern. We reiterate the apology we made earlier this week. Today, as always, our officers will continue to police with courage, empathy, and fairness.”
In an article published on Sunday in the times of london“The march was coming towards us and within minutes the crowd had thickened and people were stopping and shouting expletives at us: ‘Disgusting’, ‘Lock up’, ‘Nazis’,” Falter said. ‘, ‘Scum.’ There were people there.’ The very people who were there were expressing as loudly as they could how much they hated me for looking Jewish, saying things like, “You shouldn’t do that,” and “I’m against it.” No one said anything. ”
Falter wrote that the Metropolitan Police had established a “no-go zone” for Jews in central London, adding that it was now a “police-enforced no-go zone for Jews.”
Falter told Fox News Digital that Rowley’s “failure to exercise his powers under the Public Order Act 1986 to suppress the march made it impossible for him to bring it under control and properly police it.” Told. As a direct result of that failure, countless anti-Semitic hate crimes and terrorist crimes are committed in broad daylight on our streets during marches, as vastly outnumbered police officers are unable to intervene. Those responsible have been released and some frontline police officers have been hospitalized. ”
Former British Home Secretary Suella Braverman, who previously called on police to ban pro-Hamas marches, called for Rowley’s resignation in an article in the Sunday Telegraph. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak sacked Braverman after he called for the need to curb the large-scale anti-Semitic spectacle unfolding in London.
she wrote Sunday Telegraph, “This is either sheer incompetence or a culture coming from above, where thugs are free to intimidate and harass while the rest of us have to keep our mouths shut and get out of the way. No.”
Braverman continued, “If the march was so peaceful, why was an ‘openly Jewish’ man stopped from walking near it?” Despite apology after apology, the truth It’s horrifying. Over the past six months, we’ve seen failure after failure by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ”
She said: “If the Metropolitan Commissioner is unable or unwilling to ensure that his staff enforce the law;[London Mayor] Sadiq Khan is happy with his flexible approach to the hate march, but the prime minister needs to get a grip on it. ”
Fox News Digital reported last month that Israeli Minister for Combating Anti-Semitism Amichai Tsikri called London “the most anti-Semitic city in the world.”
Rabbi Abraham Cooper, deputy director of the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center, told Fox News Digital that “London Mayor Sadiq Khan, who has made many positive statements against anti-Semitism, has contributed to an environment in which British Jewish taxpayers are seen as having a fairer footing.” They are more of a threat to security than pro-Hamas activists. ”
Cooper, an international expert on anti-Semitism, added that Falter’s persecution “reflects a failure at the top of the police department and the mayor.” He called on the mayor and police to “talk less and act decisively before it’s too late.”
A spokesperson for Khan told Fox News Digital last month that “the mayor speaks regularly with members of the Jewish community and, despite their ongoing grave concerns, most “I don’t agree with the Minister’s use of language…the Mayor continued.”Again, as tensions rise, all Londoners are concerned about the words they use and how their actions make others feel. You need to be conscious of what you give. It’s not about stirring up division, it’s about uniting communities. ”
The Home Office, the equivalent of the US Department of Homeland Security, said: “Welcoming the Metropolitan District’s apology and recognizing the complexities of cracking down on rapidly escalating public protests, “As a matter of course, they should be cracked down just because they are of a certain race or religion.” It should never be seen as provocative. ”
