"I do think that carrying on in this way does feel un-British, it feels wrong,"
"I would say to people who are planning to go on a protest is to just take a step back for a minute, and imagine if you had lost a loved one to a terror attack in this country,"
"It is important to draw a line between what is happening in the Middle East and what is happening at home,"
"Some of them contain outright antisemitism, outright support for Hamas. Not every single person, however there is so much of this, which certainly is dangerous to many within our society."
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood expressed disappointment that pro-Palestinian protests went ahead after a terror attack that killed two men outside a Manchester synagogue. Mahmood urged demonstrators to step back from planned marches and described carrying on with protests as un-British and wrong. Demonstrators in central London protesting the Israeli navy halting a flotilla carrying aid to Gaza clashed with police near Downing Street, with large crowds on Whitehall and 40 arrests, six for assaults on officers. Mahmood warned that strong powers to protect the freedom to protest could be overridden on police advice and that authorities could deploy available powers if policing proved insufficient. Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis said some marches contained antisemitism and support for Hamas, causing concern within the Jewish community.
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