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Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander says the government has "already taken action" to make a difference to the anti-Semitism many British Jews face. "The Home Secretary banned the AL Quds March earlier this year (...) We have also introduced new powers for the police through the Crime and Policing Act that gained royal assent this week and that will mean that the police are better able to deal with these repeat protests", Alexander says. Report by Keechl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00So we have taken action already as a government. The Home Secretary banned the Al-Quds march earlier this year.
00:07That was the first time in 14 years that any Home Secretary has taken that action.
00:13We have also introduced new powers for the police through the Crime and Policing Act that gained royal assent this
00:21week.
00:21And that will mean that the police are better able to deal with these repeat protests, the cumulative impact of
00:30protests where there's intimidatory behaviour, where a particular group is always on the receiving end.
00:36And, you know, look, I think given what we have seen with the attack in Golders Green, the arson attacks
00:43previously on Hatzalah, the Jewish ambulance organisation in London,
00:49the appalling incident at the Heaton Park synagogue in Manchester, we can leave no stone unturned in action that the
00:59government takes to ensure that all of our citizens,
01:04including our British Jewish citizens, are safe in this country.
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