Met Police boss should resign, says antisemitism campaigner called 'openly Jewish' by officer

An antisemitism campaigner has called for the head of the Metropolitan Police to resign after he was called "openly Jewish" by an officer and threatened with arrest at a pro-Palestinian march in London.

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[ultraman]

Offended by everything, ashamed by nothing...

[JohanNordin-bqtz]

It was clearly obvious what his intentions were. And then cries like a baby. Take some responsibility for trying to cause trouble.

[Charlie-bhyk]

Speaking as someone with Jewish heritage, this man arrived to cause trouble and the police were trying to keep him safe as a minority in the crowd.
He knew what he was doing.

[mr_.]

Why not come out and call on Benjamin Netanyahu and the Knesset to resign for being antisemitic…

[ianreid]

The arrogance and entitlement of this overprivileged manchild are off the scale. The police are doing a difficult job and doing it well.

[dub]

Gideon Falter, CEO of hardline pro Israel lobby group CAA and director of JNF which raises money to acquire land for colonial settlements in Palestine - just happened to have “stumbled” across a pro-Palestinian protest in London - with his body guards and film crew in tow.

[nabby]

An officer stopped him therefore the chief should resign?
What planet is this guy on?

[xnqffxr]

He was deliberately trying to antagonise as the full exchange clearly shows!

[Mogwai]

If he was wearing a Spurs top walking towards Arsenal fans the police would do the same thing.

[junaidnadir]

The police was protecting him… now he’s crying rather than being grateful?

[lindacurrie]

I think it is outrageous that the police had to apologise twice.
The policeman was doing his job asked the guy to not go the way he wanted to go incase he walked into an hostile environment.
The man was adamant he was going the way he wanted to go and the police said no.
Nothing for the police to apologise for
The police have an extremely difficult job to do and they really require the support from the government and citizens they do not get that.
The police force have great difficulty in recruiting if carries on like this police will leave in droves. Rightly so
This was not about Jews or Palestines this man made it about that.

[monpetitpeid]

Absolute nonsense the policemen did his duty and prevented a Jew from obstructing a Palestinian protest.

[jayparmar]

It’s all pathetic the police officer is innocent

[hieroglyph]

I am 100% sure if there was a large pro-Zionist march, and a Muslim guy starting trying to get up in their faces, the same thing would happen .... Copper doesn't have to apologise to anyone ... that they have is ridiculous. Copper was perfectly polite in a higher tension moment. Kudos to him.

[Iamusertoo]

Worry not, this one man calls for that, thousand jewish people on the protests are okay.

[markbarrett]

Don't see the issue. The cop was concerned for the Jewish guys safety. Can't do right for wrong now.

[djiboutian]

I was there before the police arrived, his group was walking the opposite way in the middle of the protesters but there was free space on both pavements. His group was not crossing the road like they saying it on the media. Do not forget there was a pro-Israeli protest less than 50 meters away, and his group was walking towards that. To me it looked like he was trying to start something. There was a lot of openly jewish people marching with us.

[realvoicever]

All voicing against anti-semitism but when Jews broke the UK laws all blames for policing. Unacceptable behaviour of Uk politicians, blaming police force is totally unacceptable.

[fatimamirza]

“All I wanted to do was to provoke…”! Waaaa!!

Perpetual Victims.

[sebgold]

This man is a complete disgrace! He was there to cause trouble... Amazing how he had someone videoing the entire incident. Leave the police alone...