The claim was made by law academic Baroness Deech as she raised concerns over the conduct of continuing pro-Palestinian demonstrations
Members of the Jewish community feel 'completely abandoned' by the police, with officers 'turning a blind eye' to violent, anti-Semitic protests, Parliament has been told.
READ MORE The government is still refusing to commit to fix North Manchester General Hospital as M.E.N. campaign launches Lady Deech, a patron of UK Lawyers for Israel, said: “The attention of the House today is rightly turned on relationships between the police and the black community, but there is another sector of the community that feels completely abandoned by the police.
“When someone pushes back against that they get arrested, rather than the anti-Israel demonstrators, in a way that I do not think would happen if there was a right-wing demonstration. I am saying not that there is two-tier policing but that the police are turning a blind eye to a very dangerous and difficult situation.”
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