UK Home Secretary describes Pro-Palestinian protests as “hate marches”

by Karen Faulkner, Worthy News Correspondent

(Worthy News) – The UK’s Home Secretary Suella Braverman on Monday denounced the recent “pro-Palestine” mass protests in Britain as “hate marches,” Sky News reports. Ms Braverman made her remarks after five people were charged with inciting racial hatred against Jewish people at a protest in central London this past weekend.

The spate of demonstrations followed Israel’s military response to the October 7 massacre of 1,400 mostly civilian Israelis by the Hamas Islamic terror group that rules the Gaza Strip. The level of antisemitism displayed at the protests prompted an emergency meeting of the Civil Contingencies Committee (COBRA), which deals with matters of national emergency or major disruption, chaired by PM Rishi Sunak and attended by Ms Braverman, Sky News reports.

“To my mind, there is only one way to describe those marches: they are hate marches,” Ms. Braverman said in an interview with Sky News after the COBRA meeting. “What we’ve seen over the last few weekends, we’ve seen now tens of thousands of people take to the streets following the massacre of Jewish people, the single largest loss of Jewish life since the Holocaust, chanting for the erasure of Israel from the map.”

Ms. Braverman added that “[there are] a large number of bad actors who are deliberately operating beneath the criminal threshold in a way which you or I or the vast majority of the British people would consider to be utterly odious,” Sky News reports.

Concerning the way forward, Ms Braverman said that if it became necessary to change the law, she “would not hesitate to act,” Sky News said.

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