UK makes first arrests for ‘Globalize the intifada’ chants, in shift spurred by Bondi attack
The Times of Israel reports: “UK police made their first arrests Wednesday since announcing officers will detain people who publicly chant pro-Palestinian calls to ‘globalize the intifada,’ in a change prompted by Australia’s Bondi Beach massacre.
London’s Metropolitan Police said two people ‘who shouted slogans involving calls for intifada were arrested for racially aggravated public order offenses’ at a pro-Palestinian demonstration in the British capital.
Officers later made two further arrests for public order offenses, while a fifth person was held for obstructing the first arrests, the force added.
It came hours after the Met and police in England’s northwest city of Manchester announced they would ‘be more assertive’ in policing such protests to counter alleged antisemitism and incitement to violence through slogans.
The move follows father-and-son terrorists killing 15 people Sunday at a Hanukkah festival on Sydney’s Bondi Beach, and a deadly October terror attack on a Manchester synagogue on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar…”
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