The man at the centre of the row about being threatened with arrest over being “openly Jewish” has called for Met police chief Sir Mark Rowley to be sacked over the force’s handling of pro-Palestine marches in London.
Gideon Falter told GB News: “So now we've got a situation where, very regrettably, we are seeing that the Met commissioner has failed completely and change has to come from the top.
“What I'd really like the Home Secretary to be saying to the commissioner today is resign or you're fired.
“I don't know what's going to happen in this meeting. But that's really the kind of message that we need because I think for months now also, we've seen the Home Secretary James cleverly and the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, the two of them are supposed to hold the commissioner to account and they've been practically absent.
“They've done precious little, and they've created a vacuum in which this has been allowed to go on and on and on until we get to the kind of situation which I saw when I was in the march last Saturday.”
In a discussion with Tom Harwood and Emma Webb, he denied that he was trying to antagonise marchers: “It was actually towards the beginning of march, the march was thickening and coming closer and I wanted to sort of get across and get away before all of that happened.
“And you have to make a decision, sometimes you’ve got to ask yourself the question, am I going to run away [because] I'm Jewish, or am I going to say no, I've got as much right as all the other people who were crossing the road?
“It was a Saturday in London, lots of people were going in all sorts of different directions, people were crossing the road, and I just thought, why should I because I'm visibly Jewish, why should I have to run away from that?
“Why should I have to try and find some other way through London? It’s completely outrageous to say that that's something that Jews should do and no one else should have to.”
