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Lawyer Arrested for Wearing Star of David – HotAir

The other day, I wrote a piece arguing that Western governments were Islamizing their societies. 

By now, I shouldn’t have to prove my point–it is obvious if you bother to look. But, with that said, it is important to document the decline and use the evidence to warn the people who still refuse to see. 





Here is a case in point. 

As you know, the speech police (who are the actual police in the UK) can arrest somebody if they have or may “cause offense” to somebody. This is in itself outrageous–it creates a “heckler’s veto” for speech–and since the “crime” is unevenly enforced it is creating a two-tier justice system in which left-wing (or Islamic) speech of any sort is protected, while speech by people who are not left-wing are silenced. 

Christians can be arrested for silently praying. Muslims can and do take over streets in central London, blocking traffic to do their own prayers. 

Muslims and pro-Hamas people can march calling for the murder of Jews and the destruction of English society, but a man wearing a Star of David can get arrested merely for watching while Jewish

A Jewish lawyer wearing a Star of David was arrested after police alleged the symbol had “antagonised” pro-Palestine protesters.

Police interview footage obtained by The Telegraph shows a detective accusing the Jewish man of openly wearing a Star of David that could cause “offence”.

The suspect, who was handcuffed and detained by police for almost ten hours, told The Telegraph his arrest appeared to be an attempt by the Metropolitan Police to “criminalise the wearing of a Star of David”.

He was displaying the Jewish symbol on a silver chain around his neck. The six-pointed star, measured just 2cm – less than an inch – across.

The man, who is in his 40s, was arrested at 7pm on Aug 29 at a pro-Palestine protest outside the Israeli embassy in Kensington in central London. The lawyer insists he was acting as an independent legal observer, monitoring the event for unlawful behaviour by the protesters and to scrutinise the actions of police.

But officers instead accused him of antagonising the crowd and being part of a counter-protest.

He was handcuffed behind his back, bundled into the back of a “meat wagon” and then held for questioning at Hammersmith police station, before finally being released at 4.30am the next morning.





You read that right. He was arrested for wearing a religious pendant less than an inch across. Here is an example of what he was wearing. 

10 hours in custody for wearing that around Muslims. 

The man said: “It is outrageous that police should claim wearing a Star of David somehow antagonises people. When it was first raised in the police interview, it rang alarm bells for me immediately. Police crossed the line.

“They [the police] are trying to criminalise the wearing of a Star of David. They said I was antagonising and agitating pro-Palestine protesters with my Star of David. In an environment of anti-Semitism, I will not be cowed by this. I will carry on wearing it.”

Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, has come under growing criticism for allowing alleged anti-Israel marches to continue even after the murder of two Jews on Yom Kippur at a synagogue in Manchester. Police have been accused of ignoring chants that are either anti-Semitic or support terrorist groups.

The lawyer claims he has recorded up to 30 incidents of criminal behaviour by pro-Palestine protesters but insists not a single one has led to a conviction. He claims to have been personally abused on a number of occasions, including being called a “Zionist baby killer”.

“This is one of the clearest examples of two-tier policing you will ever see,” he said, “Police are arguing that wearing a Star of David is antagonising to protesters while we have seen all manner of anti-Semitic slogans on placards and shouted at Jews that have gone unpunished.”





Police claim that his presence close to the protesters was provocative and violated public order rules. 

There are countless videos of Muslims in Britain explicitly calling for the murder of Jews (and Christians in some cases) and announcing their intention of bringing down British society and replacing it with Sharia law. Yet the authorities have arrested pre-teens for waving English flags. 

In footage of the interview, the man is first questioned by police at 1am in an interview room one at Hammersmith Police station. A detective constable explains he is normally attached to the robbery unit, but has been called in to “deal with any excess prisoners that come in as a result of the protests”. In the interview, the officer was unclear under which sub-section of the Act the lawyer was being arrested.

The arrested man then gave a lengthy, pre-prepared statement explaining his actions on the evening he was detained.

The detective then paused the interview for half an hour to allow him time to digest the “very detailed account” before asking questions of his own. The interview resumed at 1.50am with the detective constable asking the Jewish suspect about his “political beliefs”, adding: “If people go to the police with a feeling you are antagonising them, shouldn’t police act on that information?”

He questioned why the suspect was not wearing “anything that overtly identifies you as a legal observer” and accused him of “approaching the pro-Palestine protesters” with his camera “quite close to them”.

Then, having asked the arrested man if he was “stoking the fire with these pro-Palestine protesters”, the detective asked the accused: “What necklace are you wearing?”

The suspect showed him his Star of David – which was bought for him by his girlfriend while on holiday in Ibiza – before his lawyer interrupted, telling the detective: “I am concerned about this question about the Star of David.”

The officer asked: “Why are you concerned?” before the interview was halted so the lawyer and his client could discuss the line of questioning.

At 2.13am the questioning resumed. The defence lawyer told the detective he was “concerned about you raising my client’s religion and wearing a sign in relation to that which I don’t think is appropriate”.

Then the lawyer asked the detective if he knew “what IJAN stands for” in reference to the anti-Israel group that had organised the protest. The International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN) describes itself as part of the worldwide movement “against Zionist militarism and repression”.

The group had begun its protests in the wake of the Oct 7 Hamas attack with regular Friday night protests outside the Israeli ambassador’s home in Swiss Cottage, which is also home to a large number of Jews. These were later moved to outside the Israeli embassy in Kensington.

The detective explained to the accused that he had “had to familiarise myself with it [IJAN] because I wasn’t at the start of the interview but correct me if I’m wrong. It’s the International Jewish Solidarity Network.”

They then corrected him, before adding: “In any event the pro-Palestinian protest was organised by a Jewish organisation…. And the Magen David [Hebrew for Star of David] is a sign of being Jewish. So I’m not sure what your point is – bearing in mind the protest was organised by a Jewish organisation.”

The detective constable insisted “my line of questioning first and foremost is not to offend”, adding: “It’s not to discriminate. I want to have that on record. I am not asking that question to cause you any offence. However, if we had proceeded with my line of questioning, the officers have noted in their statements that they believed because the Star of David was out and present to people… they felt that was antagonising the situation further.”





The British left is foursquare behind these policies, not because they particularly want to Islamize their society, but because their ideological commitment is to destroy the dominant social order and elevate people whom they consider “oppressed.” 

Ironically, they are promoting the colonization of Britain in the name of decolonization. 

Britain is lost. 



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