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sir keir starmer Has called for police action on anti-Semitic slogans demonstrationsInvolved pro-palestine march, I am saying Government “Will not tolerate” this.
Prime MinisterWhile the official spokesperson said that “free speech This is an important right in this country, which cannot extend to inciting hatred or harassing others”, he said, adding that police would use their powers “more forcefully” to tackle its spread. antisemitism,
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On Monday, a spokesman for a Jewish security charity warned that violent chants at protests could lead to deadly atrocities “if they are left unchecked.” bondi beach attack.
Dave Rich, policy director at the Community Security Trust (CST), which protects Jewish communities in the UK, said it was “not a difficult connection to make” between hatred directed at Israel and “this kind of violent terrorism” during the marches.
He called for “intifada” and the phrase “river to sea”, which is used by some protesters In pro-Palestinian demonstrations, he was not properly challenged.
Meanwhile, Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis It warned that “hate speech has the potential to turn into hateful action”.
He said: “We have seen, on a weekly basis, people on the streets of cities in our country shouting slogans that incite hatred – ‘From the river to the sea’; ‘Globalize the intifada’.
“What does ‘globalization of the intifada’ mean? Well, on Yom Kippur at Manchester’s Heaton Park Synagogue, we found out what it means. On Bondi Beach, Australians found out what those words mean.
“And now is the time for us to make it absolutely clear that this kind of speech is unlawful. It will not be accepted. This has been going on for too long. Too much hate speech has the potential to escalate into hateful action.”
Asked whether the government would legislate to ban anti-Semitic chants, the Prime Minister’s official spokesperson told reporters: “The Prime Minister agreed that these particular slogans are meant to attack Jewish communities around the world.
He said: “Free speech is an important right in this country, but it cannot extend to inciting hatred or harassing others.
“We have seen an increase in anti-Semitic incidents at these marches, and we will not tolerate it.”
The spokesperson continued: “In addition to the police using their existing powers more strongly, the Home Secretary is also looking at the cumulative impact of marches and protests… and this includes looking at marches taking place in the same place every time, where they happen again and again, and looking at the distress and impact this is having on parts of our community, such as Jewish people living in Britain.
“Obviously the police also have existing powers and we expect them to use them more.”
In October, the Home Secretary Shabana Mehmood Said police forces would be given powers to impose conditions on repeated protests.
It comes after Mr Rich told BBC Radio 4 Today Event: “There are massive protests going on in our city centers and university campuses with calls for intifada, calls for resistance, all kinds of violent rhetoric, calls to destroy the State of Israel, language like the phrase ‘river to sea’ which is taken to mean a lot of Jewish people.”
“And none of this language has been challenged or really addressed appropriately, either through law enforcement or by the organizers of these demos or by broader society. And Jewish people see a connection.
“I think people see a connection between violent words, if left unchecked, and violent actions.
“And so when you have terrorist attacks like what happened at the Heaton Park Synagogue in Manchester, or the horrific atrocities that we saw at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Jewish people make the connection.”
Justice Minister Alex Davis-Jones said people should avoid using chants such as “globalization of the intifada” and “from river to sea” after the terrorist attack in Sydney.
Asked about the phrases, she told Sky News: “I want to be very, very clear that such chants, any chants that are designed to intimidate, to call for violence, to call for the murder of Jews, are completely unacceptable.”
He said that while people have a “fundamental right to protest”, they do not have the right to “intimidate British citizens or call for violence on our streets, as sadly we have seen the consequences when that is done”.
According to the Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU), intifada is an Arabic word meaning “to shake”.
The American Jewish Committee says the phrase is “used by pro-Palestinian activists who call for aggressive resistance against Israel and those who support Israel”.
Mr Rich said such phrases should not be allowed at demonstrations, adding that there had been “record levels”. antisemitism In this country for two years”.
He said: “Every Jewish person has felt it and experienced it, and throughout society – in workplaces, in institutions, in regulators – people often turn a blind eye or at least take the path of least resistance and allow this problem to grow, and then we get into situations where Jews are killed in the streets.”
The latest official figures, published in October and covering England and Wales, showed that when all police forces were taken into account Jewish people had a higher rate of religious hate crimes targeted at them than any other religious group.
Home Office figures show that by March, there had been 106 religious hate crimes per 10,000 population targeting Jewish people.