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Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell (front right) and Khalid Abdalla (front row third from right) join people taking part in a national march for Palestine on Whitehall in central London,January 18, 2025
THE MET POLICE has called an 87-year-old Jewish Holocaust survivor in for questioning over his involvement in a pro-Palestine march, it emerged today.
Stephen Kapos is among a number of activists who has been asked to attend formal police interviews after attending the January 18 protest.
The Palestine Coalition of campaign groups that organise the marches said that letters had also been sent to Stop the War Coalition officers Lindsey German, Alex Kenny and Andrew Murray (who is also a Morning Star reporter), Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament general secretary Sophie Bolt, Friends of Al-Aqsa chairman Ismail Patel and actor Khalid Abdalla over alleged breached police conditions on the march.
The Morning Star here publishes a speech that would have been given by Stop the War officer and longtime NEU and NUT activist Alex Kenny on the eve of the verdicts handed to Chris Nineham and Ben Jamal this week. He also explains why he couldn’t give it
Danni Perry’s flag display at the Royal Opera House sparked 182 performers to sign a solidarity letter that cancelled the Tel Aviv Tosca production, while Leonardo DiCaprio invests in Tel Aviv hotels, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
