Now-removed National Association of Muslim Police paper reportedly defended Hamas and questioned Oct. 7 atrocities, prompting Jewish groups to demand police probeynet|The official organization representing Muslim police officers in Britain described Israel as a “Zionist terrorist group” and defended Hamas in an official policy document that has since been removed from the internet, the Daily Mail reported Saturday.According to the report, the deleted document described Zionism as “one of the manifestations of anti-Muslim hatred” and referred to “unverified stories about acts of violence" on October 7.UK Police bodycam footage shows innocent victim Henry Nowak, 18, being forced into handcuffs by officers after he was stabbed repeatedly by a Sikh man (Video: Reuters)The document also claimed that “Zionists” were guilty of “misusing the Holocaust” when describing the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Regarding the October 7 massacre, it claimed that Israel “began circulating alarming and unverified stories about acts of violence by Hamas, including claims of beheadings and assaults.”The British news site said the document, issued by the National Association of Muslim Police (NAMP) in the United Kingdom, raises questions about the neutrality expected of officers in their work with the Jewish community. The College of Policing, the independent body responsible for police employees in Britain and for setting the organization’s code of ethics, described NAMP as “an important part of policing” which plays “a crucial role in supporting our workforce.”The Campaign Against Antisemitism called for an official investigation into NAMP and the document it published. The group said “British Jews have long suffered two-tier policing that sees antisemitic crime go unpunished and faith in the police has dropped to its lowest level since our polling began,” and called for the dismissal of officers responsible for drafting the document.The Mail report comes about a week after footage showing the death of 18-year-old Henry Nowak, a white teenager fatally stabbed by Vickrum Singh Digwaan, a 23-year-old Sikh man, sparked public outrage.2 View gallery Henry Nowak and his killer Vickrum Singh Digwaan (Photo: HAMPSHIRE & ISLE OF WIGHT CONSTABULARY / AFP)Police bodycam footage shows Henry Nowak's final moments (Video: Reuters)The footage, in which police officers are seen speaking calmly with the killer while handcuffing Nowak, who was lying on the ground and died within minutes from blood loss, sparked outrage and renewed accusations that police are enforcing a two-tier policing policy. British police have long been accused of taking a softer approach toward suspects and offenders from “diverse” backgrounds, while acting more harshly toward light-skinned people.The British newspaper said the existence of the document was first revealed last year by the conservative magazine The Spectator, but that it has since been removed from the Muslim organization’s website. The document, signed by then-NAMP president Khaldoun Kabbani, was apparently addressing “confronting anti-Muslim hatred” in Britain. NAMP is reportedly linked to more than a dozen police areas across the United Kingdom, including Greater Manchester Police, Police Scotland, West Midlands Police and West Yorkshire Police.Stephen Silverman, director of investigations and enforcement at the Campaign Against Antisemitism, expressed concern that such a document had been published at all.“The people responsible for publishing this extremist screed on the official police.uk web domain are unfit to be police officers and must be immediately investigated by their respective forces' professional standards departments and dismissed,” he told the Mail.2 View gallery Police officers in Britain. Archive(Photo: Carl Court/Getty Images)Silverman added that “this is not police acquiescence to Islamist extremism, it is evidence that a major national policing association has been infiltrated by or is controlled by Islamists.”Silverman said the group’s data shows that “faith in the police has dropped to its lowest level since our polling began.”He added: “Saying that the movement for Jewish self-determination contributes to anti-Muslim hatred and that even talking about Hamas' October 7 atrocity should be stopped is the kind of extremism we would expect to read in the opening of the prosecution case against an antisemite, not on the national police web domain. We are writing to the Home Secretary to ensure that this clear threat to British policing results in a clear message being sent.""This cannot pass with the document being quietly deleted,” he said.The Jewish Board of Deputies said in a statement that "This disturbing document is full of falsehoods, including about Jewish identity and history and about the nature of antisemitism. If this is being circulated among officers, it poses a direct challenge to the integrity of policing. We will be taking this issue up with the relevant bodies within the police and government, to find out how this document came about, how it has been used, and how to ensure that the valued relationships of trust between British Jews and the police are not being undermined."