Why Did The Jew Want To Cross The Road? To Provoke a Breach Of The Peace

The Metropolitan Police have inadvertently added to the lexicon of ‘cross the road’ jokes with this:

“I am worried about the reaction to your presence.”

In other words, the police threatened to arrest this Jewish man for attempting to cross the road (i.e. exercising his right of freedom of movement) during a pro-Palestinian march because he was “openly Jewish” and his presence might provoke a breach of the peace. The response of the Metropolitan Police to the inevitable outcry following the release of this video was to double down and accuse bystanders of deliberately provoking a breach of the peace:

There was a further outcry and so the Met deleted this response and issued another:

This would all be very amusing of course if it were not so extremely worrying and sinister. The Metropolitan Police have allowed these weekly marches to go ahead for months and now they are threatening to arrest counter demonstrators and bystanders on the basis that their mere presence is provocative and could result in a criminal breach of the peace by the marchers.

Suella Braverman MP, our former Home Secretary, warned about the politicisation of the Met in allowing the protests to continue unhindered and for this she was sacked by unelected Prime Minister Rishi Sunak:

Finally, in an ironic twist, it turns out that the Jewish guy in question had a few months back reported Tommy Robinson’s presence to the police during an anti-Semitism march, resulting in him being assaulted and arrested by the Met simply for doing his job:

As somebody pointed out, rather aptly, in response:

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

—Martin Niemöller