One Pro-Palestinian march planned for Saturday in London and authorized by the police against the will of the British Government led the Minister of the Interior, Suella Braverman, to accuse law enforcement of being partisan.
“Right-wing and nationalist protesters who commit aggression are rightly the target of a harsh response, but pro-Palestinian crowds who behave almost identically are largely ignored, even when they clearly violate the law,” he wrote in a article published in The Teams newspaper. .
Braverman criticized this “duality of criteria” and called again to the participants in the pro-Palestinian protests “hate the protesters”.
“I don’t think these marches are just a cry for help for Gaza. They are an assertion of primacy by certain groups – particularly Islamists – of the kind we are more used to seeing in Northern Ireland,” he said. , referring to “information that some of the organizers of Saturday’s march have ties to terrorist groups, including Hamas.”
This is a demonstration organized by several organizations to call for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, which coincides with the anniversary of the World War I armistice and commemorations to remember soldiers who have died in various conflicts since 1914, including observing two minutes of silence at 11 a.m. tomorrow.
The main celebrations take place the day after Remembrance Sunday, when King Charles III, politicians, diplomats, military personnel and veterans take part in a wreath-laying ceremony at the war memorial at the Cenotaph, central London .
Since the start of the war, more than a month ago, that pro-Palestinian protests take place every weekend in London and other British cities.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak criticized protests planned for the weekend as “provocative and disrespectful” but after calling police chief Mark Rowley to a meeting on Wednesday, he said the government supported “the right to peacefully protest.”
Several British media reported that Sunak’s office did not approve the final version of Braverman’s article, but a spokesperson said that The minister continues to deserve confidence.
The MP of the Labor Party, the main opposition force, Yvette Cooper, considered that Braverman was “deliberately sabotaging respect for the police” and “trying to create division.”
“She is deliberately inflame tensions communities in the most dangerous way,” he said in the House of Commons, reproaching Sunak for having “nothing to do” with the minister and being “too weak to fire her.”
Hundreds of thousands of people have participated in demonstrations every Saturday since the start of the war, organized by left-wing groups and Muslim organizations.
There was also Large demonstrations in support of Israel. and demand that Hamas release the hostages taken in the October 7 attack.
Police say 188 arrests were made in London last month in connection with the conflict, including 98 for alleged anti-Semitic offenses and 21 for alleged anti-Muslim offences.
Protests can only be banned in the UK if there is a risk of serious unrestand the police argued that this threshold has not been reached, although they fear that dissident groups could emerge with the intention of creating riots.
Organizers We hope to mobilize a million people on Saturday. at the march to the US embassy in London to demand a ceasefire in Gaza.
A survey released this Thursday by the Sky News radio station indicates that 50% of Britons believe that pro-Palestinian marches should not be authorized on Armistice Day, compared to 34% who are in favor.
The same investigation concluded that 53% are in favor of a ceasefirepermanent or temporary and of a humanitarian nature, and 7% are against and the rest do not know or do not support any of these hypotheses.
Source: TSF
