A TOP police officer has been reported to a policing watchdog for making “false and inflammatory statements” about Palestine marches.
The Palestine Coalition, an umbrella group which organises demonstrations against the genocide in Gaza, has hit back at accusations from the head of London’s Metropolitan Police that the organisers have requested to pass by synagogues.
In a recent interview, commissioner Mark Rowley claimed that pro-Palestine groups sought march routes which went past Jewish religious sites and said that “feels like antisemitism”.
But organisers have said they have not sought out to go past synagogues and hit out at Rowley for what they claimed were deliberate and repeated attempts to “undermine and stigmatise” their campaign.
Rowley has been reported to the London Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) and a letter from the Palestine Coalition’s legal representation stressed the campaign’s “opposition to all forms of racism, including antisemitism, anti-Palestinian racism and Islamophobia”.
Organisers have previously argued that they have sought alternative routes but had different plans imposed on them by the Met and added that Rowley’s public comments have obscured this.
In an interview with ITV on May 1, Rowley made similar accusations against Palestine march organisers, saying: “They set out with an intent to march near synagogues et cetera and every single time that we put conditions on to prevent that.”
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