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Anti-Israel protests

CAA renews attack on Met Commissioner over policing of pro-Palestinian demos

Sir Mark Rowley said the campaign’s calls for banning marches ‘ignore the reality of the law’

By Simon Rocker

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Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley (Photo: Getty Images)
Former JLC chair Sir Mick Davis

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Protest against UK yeshivah regulation staged in New York

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