{"id":626947,"date":"2026-06-08T03:53:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T03:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/626947\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T03:53:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T03:53:30","slug":"uk-muslim-police-association-under-fire-for-calling-israel-zionist-terrorist-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/626947\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Muslim police association under fire for calling Israel \u2018Zionist terrorist group\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The official organization representing Muslim police officers in Britain described Israel as a \u201cZionist terrorist group\u201d and defended Hamas in an official policy document that has since been removed from the internet, the Daily Mail reported Saturday.<\/p>\n

According to the report, the deleted document described Zionism as \u201cone of the manifestations of anti-Muslim hatred\u201d and referred to \u201cunverified stories<\/a> about acts of violence” on October 7.<\/p>\n

UK Police bodycam footage shows innocent victim Henry Nowak, 18, being forced into handcuffs by officers after he was stabbed repeatedly by a Sikh man <\/p>\n

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The document also claimed that \u201cZionists\u201d were guilty of \u201cmisusing the Holocaust\u201d when describing the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Regarding the October 7 massacre, it claimed that Israel \u201cbegan circulating alarming and unverified stories about acts of violence by Hamas, including claims of beheadings and assaults.\u201d<\/p>\n

The British news site said the document, issued by the National Association of Muslim Police (NAMP) in the United Kingdom, raises questions about the neutrality expected of officers in their work with the Jewish community. The College of Policing, the independent body responsible for police employees in Britain and for setting the organization\u2019s code of ethics, described NAMP as \u201can important part of policing\u201d which plays \u201ca crucial role in supporting our workforce.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Campaign Against Antisemitism called for an official investigation into NAMP and the document it published. The group said \u201cBritish Jews have long suffered two-tier policing<\/a> that sees antisemitic crime go unpunished and faith in the police has dropped to its lowest level since our polling began,\u201d and called for the dismissal of officers responsible for drafting the document.<\/p>\n

The Mail report comes about a week after footage showing the death of 18-year-old Henry Nowak, a white teenager fatally stabbed by Vickrum Singh Digwaan, a 23-year-old Sikh man, sparked public outrage.<\/p>\n

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Henry Nowak and his killer Vickrum Singh Digwaan <\/p>\n

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Police bodycam footage shows Henry Nowak’s final moments<\/p>\n

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The footage, in which police officers are seen speaking calmly with the killer while handcuffing Nowak, who was lying on the ground and died within minutes from blood loss, sparked outrage and renewed accusations that police are enforcing a two-tier policing policy. British police have long been accused of taking a softer approach toward suspects and offenders from \u201cdiverse\u201d backgrounds, while acting more harshly toward light-skinned people.<\/p>\n

The British newspaper said the existence of the document was first revealed last year by the conservative magazine The Spectator, but that it has since been removed from the Muslim organization\u2019s website. The document, signed by then-NAMP president Khaldoun Kabbani, was apparently addressing \u201cconfronting anti-Muslim hatred\u201d in Britain. NAMP is reportedly linked to more than a dozen police areas across the United Kingdom, including Greater Manchester Police, Police Scotland, West Midlands Police and West Yorkshire Police.<\/p>\n

Stephen Silverman, director of investigations and enforcement at the Campaign Against Antisemitism, expressed concern that such a document had been published at all.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe people responsible for publishing this extremist screed on the official police.uk web domain are unfit to be police officers and must be immediately investigated by their respective forces’ professional standards departments and dismissed,\u201d he told the Mail.<\/p>\n

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Silverman added that \u201cthis is not police acquiescence to Islamist extremism, it is evidence that a major national policing association has been infiltrated by or is controlled by Islamists.\u201d<\/p>\n

Silverman said the group\u2019s data shows that \u201cfaith in the police has dropped to its lowest level since our polling began.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cSaying that the movement for Jewish self-determination contributes to anti-Muslim hatred and that even talking about Hamas’ October 7 atrocity should be stopped is the kind of extremism we would expect to read in the opening of the prosecution case against an antisemite, not on the national police web domain. We are writing to the Home Secretary to ensure that this clear threat to British policing results in a clear message being sent.”<\/p>\n

“This cannot pass with the document being quietly deleted,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The Jewish Board of Deputies said in a statement that “This disturbing document is full of falsehoods, including about Jewish identity and history and about the nature of antisemitism. If this is being circulated among officers, it poses a direct challenge to the integrity of policing. We will be taking this issue up with the relevant bodies within the police and government, to find out how this document came about, how it has been used, and how to ensure that the valued relationships of trust between British Jews and the police are not being undermined.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The official organization representing Muslim police officers in Britain described Israel as a \u201cZionist terrorist group\u201d and defended…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-626947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}