Keir Starmer, Britain’s Prime Minister on Saturday in an interview broadcast that banning some pro-Palestinian marches could be justified. The reason for this is that some matches are calling for the intifada to spread.
The Prime Minister of UK Keir Starmer is under pressure after some anti-Semitic incidents recently. In the previous week two men were stabbed in the London suburb of Golden Green. The place is home to a large Jewish community.
The attacker was a 45-year-old born in Somalia and a British national. He was remanded in custody. He has been accused of attempted murder and made his first appearance in court on Friday.
The scene of the attack was later visited by Starmer on Thursday, he was booed by some locals there and they accused him of not doing enough to protect them.
The Prime Minister of UK used to be a former human rights lawyer and a public prosecutor. His wife is also of Jewish origin. He also revealed that many Jewish people told him they were affected by the protests.
He told the BBC, “ I’m a big defender of freedom of expression, peaceful protests. But when there are chants like ‘globalise the intifada’, that’s completely off limits.”
“Clearly, there should be tougher action in relation to that.”
The intifada is a reference to the Palestinian civilian uprising against Israel in 1987-1993 and then again in the early 2000s.
Starmer emphasised that language in protests should be policed, and some of them should be banned for using such offensive language and chants.
He further added that he has been discussing this with the police about this, and further action could be taken.
In December of last year, the police in London and Manchester said that anyone chanting globalize the intifada ” would be arrested.
At the end, Starmer said that the Jewish community in Britain views these chants as extremely dangerous.
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