Julie Burchill Julie Burchill

The Met doesn’t care about anti-Semitism

Gideon Falter was confronted by a policeman at a pro-Palestine march (Credit: Campaign Against Antisemitism )

We’re familiar by now with the peculiar paradox of left-wingers and feminists, those weird well-born women who would scream blue murder if a white bus driver called them ‘love’, but who are now marching every Saturday in support of Hamas, a supremacist terror group who used sexual assault as a weapon.

As dopey as these people are, they don’t actually have any power over us. When it comes to the police though, it’s a different story.

Last Saturday in London, a policeman threatened to arrest a Jewish man, Gideon Falter of the Campaign Against Antisemitism, for literally wanting to cross the road in front of a Palestinian march, saying ‘Sir, you are quite openly Jewish, this is a pro-Palestinian march.’ He was later told, ‘if you choose to remain here you are causing a breach of peace, you will be arrested… your presence here is antagonising a large group of people, we can’t deal with all of them if they attack you because your presence is antagonising them.’

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