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TREVOR KAVANAGH
Sadiq Khan is to blame for preposterous protests and violent crime – who will end his hopeless tyranny?
Under Khan, violent deaths among teenagers leaped by 30 per cent last year
CACK-HANDED cops came close last week to legitimising the slaughter of 1,200 innocent young Israelis on October 7, butchered by Hamas for being Jewish.
Gideon Falter, wearing a kippah skull cap, was threatened with arrest if he allowed himself to be seen by pro-Hamas fanatics, some wearing balaclavas, on a march through London.
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“You are openly Jewish,” said a uniformed officer.
“This is a pro-Palestinian march. I am worried about the reaction to your presence.”
In other words, by breaking cover like a fox too close to a pack of hounds, he would be blamed for stirring violence . . . against himself.
This nakedly political ruling by the Metropolitan Police did more than trash the rights of a law-abiding citizen to go about his business.
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It represented a formal surrender to the mob by our so-called forces of law and order.
In their view, being identifiably Jewish is now unacceptable on the streets of our capital city.
Hamas’s war cry calls for the extinction of Israel “from the river to the sea”. It is echoed by its mindless cheerleaders every weekend.
For the world’s most ruthless terrorists, the only good Israeli is a dead Israeli.
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Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has bent the knee to those brutal killers by putting the marchers’ right to protest above the safety of London’s terrified Jewish community.
The police, like the BBC, Sky News and even the United Nations, have blatantly taken sides.
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This is not the first time.
Mob-handed cops recently dragged lone Iranian dissident Niyak Ghorbani to the ground for waving a sign proclaiming official UK government policy — “Hamas Is Terrorist”.
A senior officer later absurdly claimed the swastika — symbol of the Nazis — seen on a march is “not anti- Semitic”.
Police have either abandoned the streets or actively joined the spoiled brats and deluded lefties of Just Stop Oil, Extinction Rebellion and Stop The War.
You are more likely to see Rowley’s rozzers skateboarding with the kids and sharing ice creams than dragging these smirking louts from the path of blue-light ambulances.
No wonder former Home Secretary Suella Braverman is calling for Sir Mark Rowley to be sacked.
The Met chief has also been summoned for a dressing down by policing minister Chris Philp.
It will be water off a duck’s back.
Rowley will simply ignore this government until he gets a free hand under Labour.
Smirking louts
But there is another villain in this piece.
Mayor Sadiq Khan’s role as London police commissioner gives him a big say in how the Met operates.
He shares the blame for these preposterous protests.
As I wrote recently, he is up for re-election next week.
This is your last chance to give him a well-earned kicking.
Khan is the man who let knife crime rip by banning random stop-and-search operations as “racist” — even though both the victims and violators are disproportionately black.
Under Khan, violent deaths among teenagers leaped by 30 per cent last year.
Despite a vast £6billion bailout from taxpayers — on top of his rip-off congestion and Ulez charges — the diminutive ex-human rights solicitor is always strapped for cash.
Voter apathy
Council tax has rocketed by 57 per cent and he has lavished tens of millions on self-publicity, trade union pay deals and virtue-signalling including, inexplicably, £1million on “lingerie and vagina moisturiser” adverts.
Yet he has broken just about every promise made since taking office, including his failed 80,000-a-year housebuilding programme.
He has just promised to make the poo-filled River Thames safe to swim in, but he can’t make the streets safe to walk on.
Khan is counting on Tory unpopularity and a low turnout to save him on May 2.
This could backfire.
Voter apathy favours Tory candidate Susan Hall.
She is the choice of every furious black cab driver in London, many of them Jewish.
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With Rishi Sunak’s party flatlining in the polls, it may be a big ask.
But if all those cabbies turn out on Thursday next week, we might just see an end to the Khan tyranny — and the return of the freedom for Jewish citizens to walk safely in London on a Saturday afternoon.
Blank sheet of paper
KEIR STARMER is odds-on to win the next election.
Yet some of Labour’s most senior bigwigs fear he will be a disappointment.
Charmless Starmer has done absolutely zero to explain what voters can expect from a Labour government.
“He has no manifesto,” says one who knows.
Whatever you thought of Tony Blair, people knew what they were voting for and supported New Labour when it inevitably hit stormy weather.
Starmer, meanwhile, is a blank sheet of paper.
“There will be no honeymoon,” warns this insider.