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Police: We can't stop people flying Hezbollah flags on London march
'If we see the machine-gun adorned flag of an antisemitic terror group on London’s streets again this June, it will be due to the inaction of the government'
May 30, 2018 10:29
'If we see the machine-gun adorned flag of an antisemitic terror group on London’s streets again this June, it will be due to the inaction of the government'
May 30, 2018 10:29Police have confirmed that the flag of Iranian-backed terror group Hezbollah can be flown at next month’s Al Quds Day Parade in central London – because the organisation’s “political wing” is not proscribed by the British government.
A letter sent to MP Louise Ellman, the vice-chair of the Labour Friends of Israel, said that police would allow the controversial flag to be raised once again at the June 10 parade because parliament had “consciously chosen” to proscribe only the military wing of Hezbollah – but the group’s flag is “shared across all elements of that organisation.”
Metropolitan Police Commander Jane Conners says in the letter that both she and Commissioner Cressida Dick “share concerns” that the raising of the Hezbollah flag on London’s streets “may be construed as belonging to a terrorist organisation.”
But Conners adds: “Purely holding a flag does not necessarily incite religious or racial hatred.
