[IsraelTimes] UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says he will hold the Metropolitan Police commissioner "accountable" for his decision to allow a mass pro-Paleostinian demonstration against the Israel-Hamas
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war to go ahead this Saturday.
Sunak says that a march taking place on Armistice Day would be "provocative and disrespectful," but organizers have resisted his pleas and those from the Met Police to postpone the demonstration.
Met Police chief Mark Rowley has said the rally does not meet the threshold for requesting a government order to stop it going ahead, and a ban would be an "incredibly rare last resort."
London’s top cop rejects calls to block Palestinian rally on November 11
[IsraelTimes] London’s Metropolitan Police says it is powerless to stop a pro-Palestinian rally from going ahead Saturday, despite the date falling on Armistice Day, when Brits honor their war dead.
Despite officially falling on November 11, Armistice Day ceremonies will only take place Sunday. UK politicians and others had sought for the pro-Palestinian rally to be pushed off due to the day’s solemnity and fears that London’s cenotaph could be vandalized.
“The laws created by Parliament are clear. There is no absolute power to ban protest, therefore there will be a protest this weekend,” Commissioner Mark Rawley says.
He says intelligence about the potential for disorder “does not meet the threshold to apply for a ban,” noting that organizers have agreed to stay away from the cenotaph and Whitehall.
Weekly pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protests in London have drawn up to 100,000 people, with some featuring clashes between cops and demonstrators.
Near Manchester, police have been dispatched to guard the cenotaph in Rochdale after it was daubed with “free Palestine” on Tuesday, the BBC reports. 
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