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A PALESTINIAN flag was taken down from Tower Hamlets town hall in London yesterday after being up for less than 24 hours in solidarity with Gaza.
The Metropolitan Police were called to the town hall in the morning after anti-semitism awareness campaign YadbYad UK had issued a complaint on Twitter.
Addressing the Tower Hamlets Met from its official account, YadbYad claimed that raising the Palestinian flag was an “incitement and a danger to the Jewish community.”
Once again Tower Hamlets is being targeted by anti-Islam campaigners, this time a revamped and radicalised version of Ukip — the far-right event is now banned by the police, but we’ll be assembling this Saturday to make sure they stay away, says JAYDEE SEAFORTH
The ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans was based on evidence of a pattern of violence and hatred targeting Arabs and Muslims, two communities that have a large population in Birmingham — overturning the ban was tacit acceptance of the genocidal ideology the fans espouse, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
Clapton CFC players refused to play without supporters after venue officials objected to a Palestine flag and anti-genocide banner