After repeated urging from the Board of Deputies and others, the Metropolitan Police and Greater Manchester Police have announced a tougher, clearer approach to chants and placards such as “Globalise the Intifada”. We strongly welcome this necessary intervention.
Our full statement:
We strongly welcome this necessary intervention by the Metropolitan Police Commissioner and Greater Manchester Police Chief Constable, that they will recalibrate to act decisively and make arrests in response placards and chants such as “Globalise the Intifada”.
We have long warned that people chanting slogans like “Globalise the Intifada” are inciting violence, and we have been making the case for robust enforcement in relation to this slogan with government at all levels for some time.
We have seen the results of hate-filled slogans in murderous attacks around the world, including in Manchester, the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC., Boulder Colorado, and this week in Bondi Beach.
We want to see this approach applied with consistency by police forces across the country, and for the CPS to stand ready to prosecute offenders.
This new, more robust approach may not have come soon enough for Adrian Daulby, Melvin Cravitz, or the victims at Bondi Beach, but if we see this clarity and determination replicated across public authorities, media, and civil society, we will stand a far better chance of protecting our community and this country from further hate and violence.
Phil Rosenberg, President
