A coalition of campaign groups has made a formal complaint against the head of London’s Metropolitan Police for suggesting that protest organisers repeatedly intended to include synagogues on their planned demonstration routes in London.
In recent interviews with The Times and ITV News, Mark Rowley, the police commissioner, has suggested that pro-Palestine demonstration organisers have sought to march past synagogues.
“The fact that features as the organisers’ intent, I think that sends a message … that feels like antisemitism,” he told The Times.
On ITV, he said: “They set out with an intent to march near synagogues etc and every single time that we put conditions on to prevent that.”
On Wednesday, Hodge Jones & Allen solicitors wrote to the London Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime on behalf of its client, the Palestine Coalition.
