{"id":790282,"date":"2026-10-03T03:14:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T03:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/790282\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T03:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T03:14:14","slug":"met-police-urge-pro-palestine-students-to-move-7-october-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/790282\/","title":{"rendered":"Met Police urge pro-Palestine students to move 7 October protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A march can only be banned if police consider it would result in serious public disorder, and that placing restrictions on it would not prevent that disorder from taking place. The decision needs approval from the home secretary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Harman said he did not believe the strict legal threshold required in order to request such a ban had been met. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Neither the police or the home secretary can ban static demonstrations, although conditions can be placed on them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Harman said that if the march went ahead, police would use their &#8220;full powers&#8221; to ensure there were &#8220;appropriate conditions&#8221; in place, including on the route and timing of the march. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police say anyone who breaches conditions will be arrested and officers will take a zero-tolerance approach to hate crime. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Harman said although officers had made &#8220;every effort through formal and informal channels&#8221; to identify the organisers behind the event, they had been unable to do so. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If it goes ahead, we will have to police it,&#8221; he added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Around 1,200 people were killed by Hamas fighters in the attacks on Israel on 7 October 2023, and 251 people were taken hostage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This triggered a massive Israeli military offensive in Gaza, which has killed over 70,000 Palestinians. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In June, a UN commission of inquiry concluded that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c0jy96w6pw2o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Israel is committing genocide<\/a>, and a resolution passed by the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) in September came to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cde3eyzdr63o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the same conclusion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More than 900 people have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza this year despite the ceasefire, according to latest figures from the territory&#8217;s Hamas-run Ministry of Health. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A march can only be banned if police consider it would result in serious public disorder, and that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":790283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-790282","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\/790282","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=790282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}