Imagine a metro cop saying that being black is a “provocation” at a pro-KKK rally. Enough said.
And don’t hold your breath on this one.
The government has also condemned the incident but said it was for the London mayor, Sadiq Khan, to hold Rowley to account.
Jews have been fleeing Sadiq Khan’s London in record numbers due to antisemitism.
“Met police chief faces calls to quit after officer’s ‘openly Jewish’ comment at protest,” by Vikram Dodd and Matthew Weaver, Guardian, April 21, 2024:
The Metropolitan police commissioner is expected to survive calls for his resignation over a video of an officer suggesting that being “openly Jewish” was a provocation to pro-Palestinian protesters.
A government source said that the home secretary, James Cleverly, retained full confidence in Sir Mark Rowley, and sources inside the Met rejected any suggestion that he was considering his position.
Rowley faced calls to quit from the former home secretary Suella Braverman and the Campaign Against Antisemitism after its chief executive, Gideon Falter, was described by an officer as being “openly Jewish” during a pro-Palestinian demonstration earlier this month….
Phil Copson says
I guess the officer meant to say “visibly Jewish” rather “openly Jewish” – but the sheer fact that he felt that he should prevent a Jewish person from getting close to supposedly “peaceful pro-Palestinian” marchers, is confirmation that the “authorities” know perfectly well that the marchers are, in fact, not so much “pro-Palestinian” as dangerously anti-Semitic – and for this reason, they should be banned.
(The sheer lack of logic is what gets to me – why on earth would you hold a British Jew – (or French, German, Hungarian etc) – responsible for the actions of the Israeli government – whatever your views on the conflict?
Would they regard it as reasonable if the tables were turned – and thousands of British Jews started marching through the streets of London yelling silly slogans and generally holding these childish middle-class Lefties responsible for the war in Ukraine – on the grounds that, just like the protagonists – they are white European Christians?)
somehistory says
There is no logic where islam is followed, or even just allowed to the degree it is now in most nations.
In African nations, Christians are murdered and the mozlums claim it’s because mozlums in other countries are being killed in war.
So the “logic”…the total lack thereof….in blaming Jews in Britian or anywhere, is the same as in Africa and its murderous mozlum population.
VladTepesBlog says
There is indeed a kind of logic. The left and Islam are allied in a joint effort to bring down Western Civ. The Muslims who act under Islamic precepts provide most of the kinetic impetus to the revolution, while the left deflects and causes to be deflected, any discussion on the issues such that the state grows in power at the expense of the individual.
This example along with Trudeau’s admonition of the recent chants praising the Oct. 7 attacks are exemplars.
People are demanding that Trudeau act to suppress people who say things which, while disgusting, will lead to the total crushing of all our abilities to object to the totalitarian actions of the state and Islam.
The logic is dialectics. Which is also the epistemology of the enemy. And it’s working well.
The more communists and Muslims behave in a horrible way, the more muslims and communists are illegally imported to the West to do exactly these things. And then the state responds to their predictable actions by doing nothing as it gets worse, or responding to public demands to take more power.
If we didn’t learn that during the otherwise non-event of Covid, we deserve what we are getting.
somehistory says
the “logic” I was referencing is the non-existent ‘logic’ of islam.
One of their clerics even said, “there is no logic in islam.”
England Invaded says
And replace with whom? Just another of the same who will do nothing on many levels.
Hoi Polloi says
Gideon Falter is the man who had Tommy Robinson arrested while eating breakfast, claiming his presence as a journalist at a march supporting Jews was threatening to Jews. TR was dragged away by ~2 dozen policemen who could have been dealing with rape gangs or HamAss or other terrorists and intentionally pepper sprayed full-on in the eyes while not resisting in any way. TR has relentlessly posted in support of Jews and against HamAss.
Rowley should go because he’s Con’s dhimmi. Falter was wronged in this confrontation and should fight back, but he doesn’t yet acknowledge the fire he started is the same as the one that now burns him. TR is in court (yet again) today related to this arrest.
SC says
Maybe if the police marksmen started taking out violent protesters we could see how the rioters coped with streets full of trash.
somehistory says
The man who was spoken to by the met officer, says he felt as if he had done something wrong. “Like a criminal.” (yahoo.news)
But, it seems that there is much more to the “story.”
“While Babu said the “openly Jewish” comment was “not acceptable”, he told BBC Breakfast that the longer clip showed Falter “attempting to go against the march, trying to push past the officers, and I think for 13 minutes the officers showed great restraint”.
the cops were saying he was trying to stir up trouble and in London, the disruption of the peace’ is a crime. So, it makes sense that he might feel ‘like a criminal.’
Since it’s ‘up to the khan creep’ we know that nothing will change. He probably grinned all the way to the barracks afterward. His side is winning.