Gideon Falter, who is the CEO of Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA), was pulled aside by an officer who said he was 'breaching the peace' because he was 'quite openly Jewish'.
A man who was threatened with arrest by a Metropolitan Police officer after trying to cross the road at a pro-Palestine march is the chief executive of a leading Jewish group.
The CAA has called for a mass demonstration tomorrow in response, saying 'enough is enough' and that people need to 'stand up for the tolerance and decency of which this country is so rightly proud, simply by going for a walk'. In a video shared by CAA from Saturday's march, Mr Falter - who was wearing a kippah on his head - was seen telling the officer: 'I don't want to stay here, I want to leave.'After the defiant man attempts to walk across the road in the Aldwych area, the officer blocks him and says: 'I don't want anybody antagonising anybody... and at the moment sir, you are quite openly Jewish. This is a pro-Palestinian march.
He was named as one of the 'top 100 people positively influencing Jewish life' by the Algemeiner Journal, a US-based newspaper which coves Jewish and Israel-related issues. Mr Falter said he was not criticising the officers who he spoke to on Saturday, as they are 'put in impossible positions week in, week out'.
'That if these marches are truly safe then we will walk wherever we want as Londoners who are free in our home city and if we want to wear a kippah that is exactly what we will do.' The Jewish man, who asks him why there is no-one surrounding any of the pro-Palestine protesters, adds: 'I'd like that too but your sergeant here has told me that because I'm Jewish, it's antagonistic to the crowd and it's dangerous for me.'But the man interrupts, saying: 'But he's just said that.
Campaign Against Antisemitism also shared shocking footage from the march of protesters shouting 'scum' at the Jewish man. Another pro-Palestine protester was heard shouting 'Nazi' in front of an officer. He added: 'Is this something that we are willing to accept? That now the police have to keep Jews away. We mustn't accept it.'
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