Israel boasting of its ability to force western countries to erode the free speech rights of their own citizens by arresting people who utter phrases Israel dislikes.
Press statement:
The Embassy of Israel in the United Kingdom welcomes the joint announcement by the Metropolitan Police and Greater Manchester Police forces that they will arrest people promoting the phrase 'globalise the intifada'.
As Israel and the Jewish community have been saying for years, calling to βglobalise the intifadaβ is clearly incitement to violence, and a direct line can be drawn between these antisemitic chants and the acts of terror that we have seen against Jewish people worldwide.
It is disappointing it has taken such a long time for British authorities to recognise this and it should not have been on the Jewish community to plead with the authorities to take these threats seriously, only being done so after more Jews have been killed.
However, we now hope that real action is now taken to stop this chant before it can lead to further radicalisation and violence against Jews.
