UK: London Police Threatened Jewish Leader With Arrest at Pro-Hamas March

On April 13, Gideon Falter, the CEO of Campaign Against Anti-Semitism in the UK, was threatened with arrest by London police when he showed up at a pro-Hamas march through London wearing a kippah. Police told Gideon that his presence would incite the pro-Hamas marchers.

Police everywhere, not just in London, need to be reminded that the guilty parties are the ones who actually resort to violence, not their would-be victims, whose only “crime” was to be present in public space exercising their rights. In this case, Falter and his friends were not engaging in counter-protest or waving Israeli flags. They were merely walking down a public street.

Falter does not blame the individual officers themselves, rather the chief of the London Metropolitan Police, Mark Rowley, the one who gives the orders to a clearly beleaguered police force who have to deal with this pro-Hamas rabble who choose to march every Saturday with their violent rhetoric. Hopefully, this embarrassing incident will cost Rowley his job.