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Home Secretary Suella Braverman has described street demonstrations in support of Palestinians as “hate marches”.
In her strongest attack yet on Palestinian supporters, the cabinet minister said the protests about Israel’s bombardment of Gaza had featured “a large number of bad actors” behaving in “utterly odious” way.
Speaking after a Cobra meeting chaired by Rishi Sunak on Monday, Braverman said: “We’ve seen now tens of thousands of people take to the streets after the massacre of Jewish people, the single largest loss of Jewish life since the Holocaust, chanting for the erasure of Israel from the map.
“To my mind there is only one way to describe those marches: they are hate marches.”

Meanwhile, education minister Robert Halfon, who is Jewish, told Times Radio that hearing the “river to the sea” phrase being chanted was “horrific” and “scary”, adding: “It’s frightening for Jewish people in England at the moment, you know.”
The minister said he had Jewish students “are having Palestinian flags draped over their cars” and had some people “knocking on doors saying ‘we know where you live’.”
In response, Labour backbencher, Azal Khan, said the home secretary’s labelling of the marches was “disingenuous, dangerous and deeply contradictory to the right we all hold to protest”.
The number of people gathering in the capital in protest at the Israel-Hamas war over the last two weekends has totalled about 100,000.