UK Home Secy Suella Braverman singes Met Police for 'pro-Palestine bias'

After accusing the Metropolitan police of “playing favorites” with the pro-Palestine demonstrators in a recent newspaper article, UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman sparked a lot of discussion.

This occurred as Met police contested the demand of the Tory leadership to cancel the contentious Armistice Day pro-Palestinian march.

According to reports, the Met police chief Mark Rowley insisted that the information about the possibility of significant disruption this weekend does not reach the necessary standard to warrant banning the march, despite multiple attempts by Tory MPs, including the PM Rishi Sunak, to call off the “disrespectful” rally.

Braverman wrote in her article in The Times, “hate marchers” plan to use the Armistice Day demonstration as a “show of strength.”

The Home Secretary also described as “disturbingly reminiscent of Ulster” purported reports that the march’s organizers had ties to Hamas.

“I don’t think that these marches are just a cry for help for Gaza,” stated Mrs. Braverman.

They represent the kind of primacy claims that we are more accustomed to seeing in Northern Ireland from certain groups, especially Islamists.

“The reports that some of the organizers of Saturday’s march group have ties to terrorist groups, including Hamas, are also unsettlingly reminiscent of Ulster.”

“There is a perception that senior police officers play favorites when it comes to protestors,” stated Braverman.

She declared: “Although pro-Palestinian crowds exhibiting nearly identical behavior are largely ignored, even when they are obviously breaching the law, right-wing and nationalist demonstrators who engage in aggressive behavior are appropriately met with a severe response,” she said.

“Speaking with current and former police officers, they have brought attention to this unfair disparity.”

“When it comes to the harsh methods used to police them, football fans are even more outspoken than politically connected minority groups that the left supports,” she added.

“It’s possible that senior officers are more worried about the backlash they will probably face than if the general public will find this perceived injustice offensive. The government must adopt a more comprehensive stance,” she stated.

Such allegations against Met police are not a new phenomenon. Apart from the allegations like corruption, sexual crimes, mishandling the public, drug use on duty and blackmailing, Met police recently faced fire after a major figure leading a pro-Palestine rally in London was identified as one of their key advisor.

Attiq Malik, a solicitor known for his vocal opposition against what he terms “global censorship by the Zionists,” was found to have been present in the police operations room during protests last month.

A video discovered by The Telegraph exhibited Malik encouraging chants of “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” in 2021, a slogan denounced by Downing Street as “deeply offensive” to many.