The Met has said an officer's use of the term was 'hugely regrettable', but added that a video shared by the Campaign Against Antisemitism will 'further dent the confidence of many Jewish Londoners'.
The Metropolitan Police has apologised after an officer prevented an antisemitism campaigner from crossing a road near a pro-Palestinian march because they were 'openly Jewish'. A video showed an officer using the term while speaking to Gideon Falter, chief executive of the Campaign Against Antisemitism, who was wearing a kippah skull cap near the demonstration in the Aldwych area of London on the afternoon of Saturday 13 April.
' Mr Falter added that it is his right and 'the right of every Jew' to walk freely around London. He continued: 'If police threaten us with arrest for doing so or consider our presence to be a provocation, then the Met has decided wholesale to curtail the rights of Jews in order to appease lawless mobs'. 'On Saturday 27th April, I and hopefully others will again walk in our home city, again being 'quite openly Jewish'.
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