00:00The Palestine Coalition, which includes groups such as the Palestine Solidarity Campaign,
00:06Stop the War Coalition and Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, wrote to Sir Mark Rowley,
00:12describing his claims as incomprehensible and defamatory. But a Metropolitan Police
00:18spokesperson said in response that since October 2023, around 30 large marches have
00:26been organised by groups that make up the Palestine Coalition, and added that Sir Mark
00:33quote-unquote pointed out that for around half of those marches, the original proposals put forward
00:40by organisers involved starting or ending in the vicinity of or walking past a synagogue.
00:47It comes after the Metropolitan Police Commissioner told the Times their initial suggestion for their
00:53route, their march, has involved walking by a synagogue. The Met chief said each time the
01:00force has prevented that, Sir Mark said that the inclusion of synagogues on such protest routes
01:06feels like anti-Semitism. The letter from the Palestine Coalition urges a speedy reaction
01:12of the accompanying claim of anti-Semitism. It adds that they were told their first suggested route
01:20for the next march was disallowed on the grounds that Tommy Robinson's demonstration was inexplicably
01:26going to be granted the whole political centre of London.
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