The event, organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), began at Parliament Square at noon yesterday (Saturday 27). Two men were arrested during the march, according to the Metropolitan Police. One of the men was taken into custody for carrying a swastika emblazoned placard, shortly before the PSC march set off from Parliament Square. The other was for allegedly making racist remarks towards counter-protesters. The demonstration was to call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. There was...
The event, organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), began at Parliament Square at noon yesterday (Saturday 27). Two men were arrested during the march, according to the Metropolitan Police. One of the men was taken into custody for carrying a swastika emblazoned placard, shortly before the PSC march set off from Parliament Square. The other was for allegedly making racist remarks towards counter-protesters. The demonstration was to call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. There was...
London's police service issued a statement on Friday afternoon apologising after Jewish man Gideon Falter was stopped from walking through a pro-Palestine march last Saturday.
The head of London’s Metropolitan Police, Sir Mark Rowley, is facing calls to resign after a British campaigner against antisemitism was told he was “too openly Jewish” to approach an anti-Israel march last week. Gideon Falter, head of the Campaign Against Antisemitism, condemned the incident, saying: “The Met has dented the confidence of Jewish Londoners […]
The Metropolitan Police have been branded “more appalling” after an officer threatened to arrest a Jewish man who tried to cross the street at a pro-Palestine demonstration because his “presence was upsetting”.The man who said he tried to walk through the capital after attending a synagogue was pulled aside by a police officer who said he had "broken the peace" because he was "openly Jewish."A video from Saturday's march shared by Campaign Against Antisemitism states: The man, who was wearing a...
The man, who said he trying to walk around the capital after going to a synagogue, was filmed being stopped by a police officer in the Aldwych area during Saturday's march.
Gideon Falter is encouraging people to follow the route of a pro-Palestinian march in London to 'force the police to make sure that these things are safe for Jewish people'.
A demonstrator was arrested following multiple confrontations between UIUC protesters and university police on Friday.
Authorities told students they could face criminal trespass charges if they didn’t disperse. The arrests come amid
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Law enforcement officers on Wednesday handcuffed and removed at least 10 people participating in a student protest on the University of Texas at Austin campus in support of Palestine amid the Israel-Hamas war.
At least a half of dozen protesters were arrested. The Palestine Solidarity Committee in Austin is calling on the university administration to "divest from death."
Tensions have also escalated at the University of Pennsylvania, where the college president ordered a campus encampment to be disbanded.