This is a dark day for London. Not only did we see the usual antisemitic bile and open support for Jew-hating terrorist organisations to which our nation’s capital has become accustomed, but extremists repeatedly breached the modest restrictions imposed by the police on today’s protest. Frontline officers acquitted themselves superbly in the face of extremely challenging circumstances, making numerous arrests across central London, but why had they been put in such a dangerous position by their superiors? The Met’s Commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, is learning what happens when you bend over backwards to accommodate extremists for fifteen months and then dare to impose a minor restriction. For over a year we have called for these marches to be banned; we reiterated that call yesterday when it was clear that the police would not be able to control the situation. Police authorised a static protest for activists who repeatedly declared, ‘#wewillmarch’. The result was chaos in London. What happened today was not a case of a few bad apples. It is time that the organisers of the protest, several of whom appeared to be involved in trying to break the police lines and defy the conditions, finally be arrested and their organisations’ future demonstrations must be contained as static rallies. Anything short of that would broadcast the message that the police have lost control of law and order in our nation’s capital, or, worse still, that some people are above the law, and some forms of extremism are acceptable. https://x.com/antisemitism/status/1880695418511904820?s=46 _Get the latest updates from CAA via our WhatsApp channel: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaDa5E2HrDZgD8KtqU1l ☑️_