The Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley accused pro-Palestine march organizers of antisemitism for requesting a route near a synagogue.

THE head of the Metropolitan Police has been called out for “incomprehensible and defamatory” accusations against pro-Palestine marches. Commissioner Mark Rowley claimed that organisers of a demonstration to mark the Nakba, the expulsion of Palestinians from Israel, had requested a route which would go past a synagogue and said this “feels like antisemitism”. https://www.thenational.scot/news/26076026.met-chief-must-take-back-defamatory-palestine-march-claim/ 🕎 🇵🇸 ☮️ #Gaza #Palestine #Press #News

The Palestine Coalition has today written to the Metropolitan Police commissioner, Mark Rowley, calling on him to retract his scurrilous and defamatory claims that we “set out with an intent to march near synagogues”. Our letter to the Commissioner describes these claims as “incomprehensible and defamatory” and urges a “speedy retraction of the accompanying scurrilous claim of antisemitism”. https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2026/05/04/mark-rowley-palestine-marches/ 🕎 🇵🇸 ☮️ #Gaza #Palestine #Press #News