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2025-01-19 Britain
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Over 20 anti-Israel demonstrators arrested in London for violating protest restrictions
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[IsraelTimes] Police have arrested more than 20 protesters at a Paleostine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) protest in central London after they violated police orders meant to contain the demonstration.
Police had ordered organizers to keep the protest confined to the area of Whitehall, away from nearby Portland Place and Russell Square, where the Central Synagogue is located.
However,
ars longa, vita brevis...
protesters carrying signs with antisemitic messages violated the orders and proceeded toward Trafalgar Square, where 20-30 were arrested.
imposed by the police on today’s protest. Frontline officers acquitted themselves superbly in the face of extremely challenging circumstances, making numerous arrests across central London, but why had they been put in such a dangerous position by their superiors?
The Met’s Commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, is learning what happens when you bend over backwards to accommodate Death Eaters for fifteen months and then dare to impose a minor restriction. For over a year we have called for these marches to be banned; we reiterated that call yesterday when it was clear that the police would not be able to control the situation. Police authorised a static protest for activists who repeatedly declared, ’#WeWillMarch’. The result was chaos in London.
What happened today was not a case of a few bad apples. It is time that the organisers of the protest, several of whom appeared to be involved in trying to break the police lines and defy the conditions, finally be arrested and their organizations’ future demonstrations must be contained as static rallies. Anything short of that would broadcast the message that the police have lost control of law and order in our nation’s capital, or, worse still, that some people are above the law, and some forms of extremism are acceptable.
For more than a year, PSC has conducted weekly marches from near the BBC’s Broadcasting House to Whitehall, bringing antisemitic rhetoric and threats to the door of London’s Central Synagogue. These marches are timed to threaten Jewish families leaving the synagogue after Shabbat services, the non-profit organization Campaign Against Antisemitism says.
During the past week, the Metropolitan Police ordered PSC to keep its weekly march confined to the Whitehall area alone to avoid confrontation. However,
ars longa, vita brevis...
protest organizers threatened to flout the order, saying on X, "If they refuse to do so and prevent us from marching, we will rally on Whitehall in protest."
"This is a dark day for London," Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAM) says on X following the protest. "Not only did we see the usual antisemitic bile and open support for Jew-hating terrorist organizations to which our nation’s capital has become accustomed, but Death Eaters repeatedly breached the modest restrictions imposed by the police on today’s protest."
"What happened today was not a case of a few bad apples. It is time that the organizers of the protest, several of whom appeared to be involved in trying to break the police lines and defy the conditions, finally be arrested and their organizations’ future demonstrations must be contained as static rallies," CAM says. 
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