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Home Secretary plots to crush Gaza protests
Braverman presses Met Police to use ‘full force’ of the law
Police officers arrest a protester in Trafalgar Square during a March for Palestine in London. Picture date: Saturday October 14, 2023.

ATTEMPTS to criminalise Palestinian solidarity demonstrations “won’t stop this growing movement,” campaigners warned today after the Home Secretary attempted to push the Met Police for tougher action.

Suella Braverman met with Scotland Yard chief Sir Mark Rowley and called for the use of the “full force of the law” after a video emerged of a pro-Palestinian protester chanting “jihad.”

The word can mean struggle or effort, but can also refer to holy war, the meaning best known among non-Muslims.

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