Meanwhile, the Met Police has recorded 408 antisemitic offences in London between October 1 and 27, compared to 28 in the same period last year
Police officers are set to intervene if protesters use the word ‘jihad’ in chants at events over the weekend Speaking to reporters on Friday afternoon, Commander Dominic Murphy of the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command, said: “We’ve had now over 1,500 referrals from the public and mostly about content specifically relate to the events in Israel and Gaza.”: “From a counter-terrorism perspective I think this is one of the largest engagements we’ve had working so closely with public order policing.
It comes amid a spike in hate crime reports, with 408 recorded antisemitic offences in London between October 1 and 27, compared to 28 in the same period last year and 174 Islamophobic offences compared to 65 in the same period in 2022. A fresh appeal has been launched to identify three women who attended a pro-Palestine protest in Whitehall on Saturday, 14 October and displayed images of paragliders either on their clothing or on a placard, and a man who held a placard that read: “I fully support Hamas” during a protest on Bond Street on Saturday, 21 October.
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