Sky News reports:

The Met said it was "having to plan for a gathering of more than 1,000 people in Trafalgar Square on Saturday in support of a terrorist organisation".

It added: "By choosing to encourage mass law breaking on this scale, Defend Our Juries [the protest organisers] are drawing resources away from the communities of London at a time when they are needed most."

[https://news.sky.com/story/met-police-calls-for-protest-against-palestine-action-ban-to-be-cancelled-after-manchester-synagogue-attack-13443348]

Instead of this nonsense, perhaps the Met should be spending time doing some more training for its armed personnel who were tragically responsible for killing the other victim in the attack by mistake.

Apparently in Starmer's society, the right to protest a ban of an organisation is deemed to be ‘mass lawbreaking’ by the Metropolitan Police.

Presumably if a 'far-right' organization had been banned and people turned out to celebrate this then it would have been a different story, 

Defend Our Juries, which has led demonstrations against the Palestine Action ban, said it planned to go ahead with the march.

"Today, the Metropolitan Police wrote to us to ask that we postpone Saturday's mass protest in Trafalgar Square, citing 'significant pressure on policing'," said a statement.

"Our response in short: Don't arrest us then."

The Home Secretary weighed in with more nonsense.

Speaking to Anna Jones on Sky News Breakfast, Shabana Mahmood said she was "very disappointed" to see the protests go ahead, given the context.

"I think that behaviour is fundamentally un-British," she said. "I think it's dishonourable."

The context is the erosion of protest rights and  freedom of speech in the UK while it is clearly Un-British in the Orwellian sense as it is undermining our 'special relationship' i.e. functioning as Airstrip One for the AIPAC-dominated USA.

The Greens took a different line:

However, Zack Polanski, the leader of the Green Party, accused the home secretary of being "deeply irresponsible" for her comments about pro-Palestine protests.

"I think ultimately conflating protests against the genocide in Gaza and ultimately weaponising that against an antisemitic attack on our streets, a terrorist attack, is deeply irresponsible," he told Sky News Breakfast.

The Green Party leader said it was "worrying when governments are increasingly trying to crush down dissent" and using "what is a brutal attack... to try and make a point about protest".

But wait ... it's OK.

The guy who murdered one person is not a known terrorist just a regular Syrian guy who goes around strapping fake suicide bombs to his waist when he goes to the chip shop.

Ms Mahmood confirmed to Sky News that the perpetrator was not known to counter-terror police and that he had not been referred to the government's anti-terrorism scheme Prevent.

As if this 'not known to the authorities' is an indication that he could not be a ‘terrorist’. 


Since when did any terrorist announce themselves to the authorities prior to an attack? 

And even if he was on any kind of list, often nothing much is done about it. The guys behind 9/11 were known to US authorities but that didn’t stop them learning to fly and hijacking aircraft.

Just because you have a freedom does mean you have to use it, otherwise all our freedoms could become un-British mass lawbreaking.

UPDATE 10/10/25

Turns out that the Manchester synagogue killer had 3 wives, one of whom called him a 'vile man', and was out on bail for an alleged rape.

So he was clearly not 'unknown' to the authorities.

But luckily for the authorities, he is now dead.

So this whole sordid episode, blamed on rising 'British' anti-semitism (i.e. a subtext of far-right racism), can now be swept under the carpet and not investigated for what it really is:

Yet another hate crime by another fundamentalist, Islamic nutcase.