LONDON: UK police are to be given greater powers to restrict protests as a minister said repeated large-scale pro-Palestinian demonstrations had caused \u201cconsiderable fear\u201d for the Jewish community.<\/p>\n
The government initiative follows Thursday\u2019s deadly knife and car-ramming attack on a synagogue in the northwestern city of Manchester.<\/p>\n
A pro-Palestinian demonstration in central London went ahead on Saturday despite pleas from Prime Minister Keir Starmer and the capital\u2019s Metropolitan Police to delay it.<\/p>\n
The government said police would be authorised to consider the \u201ccumulative impact\u201d of protests when deciding to impose limits on protesters.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe right to protest is a fundamental freedom in our country. However, this freedom must be balanced with the freedom of their neighbours to live their lives without fear,\u201d Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Over 1,000 people took part in Saturday\u2019s protest in London\u2019s Trafalgar Square with nearly 500 people arrested for showing supporting for the banned Palestine Action campaign group.<\/p>\n
Organisers rejected calls not to gather saying they \u201cstood in solidarity\u201d with the Jewish community over the Manchester attack but that \u201ccancelling peaceful protests lets terror win\u201d.<\/p>\n
A day earlier, Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy was booed at a vigil for the Jewish victims of the synagogue attack.<\/p>\n
\u201cLarge, repeated protests can leave sections of our country, particularly religious communities, feeling unsafe, intimidated and scared to leave their homes,\u201d Mahmood claimed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis has been particularly evident in relation to the considerable fear within the Jewish community.\u201d Questioned by a BBC television interviewer about the Jewish community\u2019s repeated warnings about the dangers they face, Mahmood admitted she was \u201cvery worried about the state of community relations in our country\u201d.<\/p>\n
The home secretary added, speaking to Times Radio, that there was a broad \u201cproblem of a rise not only in anti-Semitism but in other forms of hatred as well\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are clearly malign and dark forces running amok across our country,\u201d she asserted<\/p>\n
Police shot dead assailant Jihad Al-Shamie, a 35-year-old UK citizen of Syrian descent, within minutes of the alarm being raised on Thursday.<\/p>\n
One person died in the attack outside the synagogue in north Manchester.<\/p>\n
Another died after suffering a fatal gunshot, believed by police to have been fired by armed officers as they tackled Shamie.<\/p>\n
Three people who were seriously injured remain in hospital, including one who is also believed to have been accidentally hit by police fire.<\/p>\n
Counter terrorism police have been granted more time to detain four people arrested on suspicion of terrorism-linked offences over the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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