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British minister accuses her own police force of being too pro-Palestinian
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LONDON — The minister overseeing Britain’s largest police force has accused it of double standards and sympathizing with pro-Palestinian protests she insists are “hate marches.”
Writing in the Times of London on Thursday, Suella Braverman, Britain’s home secretary, said she did not “believe that these marches are merely a cry for help for Gaza.” Instead, she said, they were an “assertion of primacy by certain groups — particularly Islamists.”
During Covid, why was it that lockdown objectors were given no quarter by public order police yet Black Lives Matters demonstrators were enabled, allowed to break rules and even greeted with officers taking the knee?”
The pro-Palestinian protesters, who are calling for an immediate cease-fire in the Israel-Gaza war, will start at Hyde Park and then cross the River Thames and make their way to the U.S. Embassy.
Sunak said the march planned for Armistice Day was “disrespectful” and said he would hold Mark Rowley, the London police chief, “accountable” for his decision to greenlight the demonstration.
Yvette Cooper, Braverman’s counterpart in the opposition Labour Party, wrote on social media that the home secretary was “out of control” and that it was a “highly irresponsible, dangerous attempt to undermine respect for police at a sensitive time, to rip up operational independence & to inflame community tensions.
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