Met police chief praises ‘professional’ conduct of officer in antisemitism row

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1. Key paragraph:

   > The commissioner of the Metropolitan police has praised the “professional” conduct of the sergeant who stopped an antisemitism campaigner at a pro-Palestinian march and warned that officers at other protests had been “set up” by activists using “fakery” to undermine the force.

   As had been obvious from the start – this was a stunt along the lines of that pulled by extremists in the US like Westboro Baptist Church or Project Veritas and does nothing but cheapen actual, real antisemitism.

   Of course, it’ll be too much to expect this to be reported and discussed with the same gusto that the initial hours after the incident saw, and there will be a significant number of people all too willing to spread such fake news again in the near future, both here and in the media.

2. The guy is a professional agitator paid for by the IDF. He wanted to cause a fight. He looked so smug in the vt thinking he could get away with it too because of “but all the antisemitism…” Was the guy expecting a warm welcome at a pro-Palestine march? Of course he wasn’t… He knew full well what he was doing…

   Well done that officer and good job to the Met for once imo

3. It’s good that the longer length video has come out now to show more of the exchange.

   Looks like the copper handled it pretty well, considering the guy was there purely to make a point and stir up trouble.

4. Wow. Could he be any more tone deaf.

   The guy at the march was clearly an agitator trying to get a gotcha moment, but he is just playing devil’s advocate. There have been numerous Jewish people who have said that these constant marches have made them feel uncomfortable just dressing how they normally would. And Rowley has just doubled down, said suck it up and said it’s “not a logical view” for them to say they feel unsafe.

   I was actually on his side before now, but this is resignation stuff.

5. [IN FULL: New video of Met Police ‘openly Jewish’ row (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iupfxe38Wj0&t=681s)

   Full video. Jewish guy was not just standing on the street waiting to cross the road. He and his supporters wanted to get into the middle of the protest and march in the opposite direction.

   PCs “openly Jewish” comment comes at the end of an exasperating 15 minute argument in which the Jewish guy was obviously trying to bait the police into saying something that could be construed as “anti-sematic”.

   The Jewish guy was there explicitly to provoke the protestors and film their reaction, presumably with the same heavy editing that accompanied his first video.

   Media are doing a terrible job here. First of all they released the story without checking exactly what was going on and now they have dropped it like a bag of dog shit.

6. What’s concerning is people are quick to wave away the harmful language used by the police simply because the guy was an agitator when the police could have easily just pointed out he was there to cause trouble – why even mention the openly Jewish aspect?

   The fact the police chief praised this as professional conduct tells me all I need to know about the MET.

7. Unfortunately, this isn’t the first time since October 7th that there’s been false flags of antisemitism set up and performed by Zionists seeking to undermine pushback to their government.

   Unfortunately it won’t be the last. It is so incredibly easy to agitate and spread misinformation that gets picked up and sensationalised by our media, easier to do so than it is to debunk said misinformation. And when it becomes debunked our media which had a hand in spreading panic won’t nearly put in as much effort to right their wrongs than they did committing the wrongs in the first place.

   I hope these false flag claims don’t desensitise people to real antisemitism that happens on a regular basis and does negatively effect the lives of our Jewish community members.

8. Not saying who was right or who was wrong but I would be willing to bet that if we had cameras filming us 24/7 we’d all be saying things that someone else finds not appropriate.

   Ironically, I shall let they who has committed no sin cast the first stone.

9. Jewish man was guilty of not following that proud British tradition of picking dishonor over the conflict.