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Gaza protest: How Starmer and the Met have joined forces to quash all dissent

Dozens of people were arrested on the weekend at a peaceful demonstration aiming to highlight British complicity in Israel’s slaughter

JONATHAN COOK

Notably, on the day before the rally, more than 1,000 Jews, including leading cultural figures, lawyers and academics, called on the police to overturn the ban on marching to the BBC, stating: “As Jews we are shocked at this brazen attempt to interfere with hard-won political freedoms by conjuring up an imaginary threat to Jewish freedom of worship.”