Met Police apologises for ‘openly Jewish’ comment

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1. > The force then withdrew its initial statement, after “reflecting on the strength of the response” to it, and issued a second apology for causing further offence.

   Outstanding work. An operational officer saying something in the moment is one (bad enough) thing – having to retract your own PR statement…..have they completely lost the plot.

   > The original statement talked about a “new trend of those opposed to the main protests appearing alongside the route to express their views”, and “knowing their presence is provocative”.

   As I said this morning, being Jewish with intent. Quality policing.

2. So if the police feel that being openly Jewish is likely to cause a breach of the peace, how can the organisers of these parades continue to argue they aren’t against Jews, just Zionists?

3. Looks like the police are more scared of the protestors reactions to a person appearing to be Jewish than upsetting the Jewish community. Can’t think for the life of me why that would be.

4. can someone go to a protest as a pantomime horse with a star of david painted on? I want to see how the police would treat it.

5. Let’s get something straight here shall we, Gideon Falter isn’t some random person who just happened to be near this protest, he is the head of the (misnamed) Campaign Against Antisemitism and was intentionally looking to start an argument or fight with protesters by being an apologist for Israel’s massacre in Gaza.

   The policeman’s words were stupid, but frankly keeping Falter away was the sensible thing to do.