Being Jewish ‘never provocative’, says Home Office amid policing row
Being Jewish “should never be seen as provocative”, the Government has said following a row over the policing of a pro-Palestine march by the Metropolitan Police.
The force apologised on Friday after an officer used the term “openly Jewish” to describe an antisemitism campaigner who was threatened with arrest near the march on April 13.
A video clip showed an officer telling Campaign Against Antisemitism chief executive Gideon Falter: “You are quite openly Jewish, this is a pro-Palestinian march. I’m not accusing you of anything
