{"id":751467,"date":"2026-02-08T22:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T22:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/751467\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T22:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T22:37:14","slug":"woman-on-way-to-anti-zionist-event-in-birmingham-detained-by-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/751467\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman &#8216;on way to Anti-Zionist event&#8217; in Birmingham detained by police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The woman was already wanted over speeches and social media posts made between May and October last year in London and Birmingham<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Police stopped the woman in Kings Heath and detained her\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1_Stock-Photo.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"Police stopped the woman in Kings Heath and detained her\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">Police stopped the woman in Kings Heath and detained her(Image: West Midlands Police Federation)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A woman has been arrested on suspicion of inciting racial hatred while allegedly on her way to an &#8216;Anti-Zionist&#8217; event in <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"\">Birmingham<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\"><a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/west-midlands-police\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"\">West Midlands Police<\/a> said officers had stopped a car the woman, aged 35, was travelling in in the <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/kings-heath-and-stirchley\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"\">Kings Heath<\/a> area at around 2.30pm today (Sunday, February 8) and detained her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The force said it was &#8216;acting on information that she was due to attend a launch event for the \u2018Anti-Zionist Movement\u2019, with the event promoted on Facebook as taking place in <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/moseley\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"\">Moseley<\/a> at The Old Print Works.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Read more <\/strong><a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/midlands-news\/cctv-released-after-concerning-incident-33386283\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_self\">CCTV released after &#8216;concerning incident&#8217; at Midland Aldi as woman &#8216;followed&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The woman was wanted by the Metropolitan Police on suspicion of a Public Order Act offence, as part of an investigation by the London force into speeches and social media posts made between May and October last year in the capital and Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A spokesman for West Midlands Police said: &#8220;Our officers continue to work to understand the plans of the organisers of today\u2019s event, which has been advertised as taking place in the Moseley area of Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;We have a policing operation in place and continue to liaise with key stakeholders, including members of the local Jewish community.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The woman was already wanted over speeches and social media posts made between May and October last year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16821,16555,16,15,7830],"class_list":["post-751467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-birmingham","tag-birmingham","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-kings-heath-and-stirchley","tag-moseley","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-west-midlands-police"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116037408911446642","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}