Head of Palestine Solidarity Campaign charged with ‘breaching police conditions’ at chaotic march

“Within 2 hours of the interview concluding, Police officers turned up at my front door to inform me that charges were being brought against me.

“I am due in Court to face these charges on February 21st 2025, and will of course vigorously contest them.”

More than 70 people were arrested at the march as demonstrators broke through a police line and entered an exclusion zone around the BBC and several central London synagogues.

Police said the demonstration amounted to the most “significant escalation in criminality” in the nearly 16 months of regular pro-Palestine marches.

Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and his erstwhile Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell were also interviewed under caution in relation to the march, but no charges have yet been brought.

Jamal concluded his statement echoing the “from the river to the sea” slogan, which critics claim promotes genocidal intent against Jews.

He added: “The state wishes to silence our movement. It will not succeed. We will not stop protesting and campaigning until every brick in the wall of apartheid that imprisons and oppresses the Palestinian people is torn down, until Palestinians in exile are free to return to their homes and on every inch of their historic homeland, from the river to the sea, are finally able to live in freedom with justice."