Braverman: Gaza protests create no-go areas for Jews

PRO-PALESTINIAN protests have turned parts of London into “no-go” areas for Jewish people, Suella Braverman claimed as she urged Rishi Sunak to introduce emergency laws to tackle extremism.

Mrs Braverman said Mr Sunak needed to replace his words with action by giving powers to ministers so they could stop protests from going ahead.

She was responding to a speech by the Prime Minister last week on a “shocking increase in extremist disruption and criminality” in the wake of the Oct 7 Hamas attacks on Israel.

Mr Sunak urged protesters not to let extremists “hijack” the marches, calling for people to “protest decently” and “with empathy for your fellow citizens”.

Mrs Braverman said that the remarks were “welcome” but told GB News that “I think the time for words has come to an end and we do need to see action”.

She said: “The next day we saw tens of thousands of people take to the streets, chanting hateful slogans and behaving in a totally unacceptable way… overwhelming the police, notably, where police resource has been disproportionate to what’s happening.

“So we need to see a step change in the police response. They need to be enforcing the law. They need to be arresting people who are using threatening or abusive language.

“We need to be holding the police to account in a better way, and I would have liked to have seen an emergency law introduced to actually empower ministers and empower all of those policymakers who are responsible for this issue to actually take steps to restrict some of these marches.

“You know, this has been going on now for four months. It’s become a weekly fixture. Parts of London have become no-go areas for Jewish people. That is totally unacceptable. We’ve seen anti-semitism skyrocket.

“That cannot be the case in 21st-century Britain, and therefore it’s time for action, not words.”