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London police will reroute anti-Israel protesters away from synagogue

The Metropolitan Police reportedly stated that it will use a public order law if Palestine Solidarity Campaign refuses to stay away from Central Synagogue.

Central Synagogue London
London’s Central Synagogue at Great Portland Street in Westminster, on May 8, 2024. Credit: Adrian Scottow via Wikimedia Commons.

London’s Metropolitan Police stated that it will direct a Jan. 18 Palestine Solidarity Campaign march away from Central Synagogue, an Orthodox synagogue in Westminster.

The police announcement came “just a week after The Jewish Chronicle reported that community leaders had pleaded with the force to move the Gaza march away from Central Synagogue amid concerns that the Met is failing to protect Jewish life in the city,” the nearly 185-year-old paper reported.

“In a statement on Wednesday, the Met admitted that the Gaza protest close to a shul in central London on Shabbat risked ‘causing serious disruption,’” the Chronicle reported.

“If the PSC does not reroute the Gaza march, the Met said they would consider using the powers of the Public Order Act, which allows the force to limit unlawful assembly and riots,” it added.

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