Hezbollah are not terrorists” ... I love Hezbollah”.
These images have been passed to officers, including those monitoring our camera systems. We are urgently trying to identify those involved so that action can be taken.”
Today we are here to protest a year of ongoing genocide in Gaza and call on the Canadian government to implement an immediate two-way arms embargo and end its complicity in this genocide,
We recognize that next week, October 7th, marks the beginning of hostilities. We are closely monitoring the situation and assessing any potential impacts on our local community,
My position is clear: Hatred, defamation and antisemitism do not belong on the streets of Berlin,
We're aware of posts showing people holding placards with messages of support for Hezbollah
@metpoliceuk this is a sign of terrorism, Hezbollah is classed as a terrorist organisation, she needs arresting immediately.
Unfortunately, in spite of all our good will, the Israeli government does not take any notice, and they just go ahead and continue their atrocities in Gaza, now also in Lebanon and in Yemen, and also probably in Iran,
And our government, our British government, unfortunately is just paying lip service and carries on supplying weapons to Israel,
Gaza, Lebanon you will rise, the people are by your side."
We fear a regional war, because there are tensions with Iran at the moment, and perhaps with Iraq and Yemen." ... We really need to stop the war because it's now become unbearable."
One Year of Genocide."
Every single march we’ve had hundreds, sometimes thousands, of Jewish people marching in an organised Jewish block to say ‘we do not agree with what the state of Israel is doing’,
We have seen an unusually high incidence of offences linked to the Terrorism Act, in terms of supporting a proscribed organisation, and we have made arrests at almost every march linked to racial or religious hatred,
The cost has been enormous,
It’s become a useful soundbite for those who seek to criticise and undermine without adding constructively to the debate. We police without fear or favour, according to the law as it is – not as people might wish it to be.”
I remember saying to my staff ‘we are probably going to need to be responding to this through marches until potentially Christmas’,
The number of people being arrested on these demonstrations is very, very low,
If [Jewish] people want to go on these marches that’s fine, but the vast majority of Jewish people don’t fancy coming out of a synagogue and watch 10,000 people marching past calling Israel genocidal baby-killers,
As well as the [pro-Palestinian] marches, we now see counter protests, and then we’ve had the growth in what I would call cultural nationalists, or some people characterise as the right wing, which have also been presenting an additional resourcing demand,