The curious priorities of the police
by Sarah Phillimore, Artillery Row:
Why is gender criticism a more arrestable offence than being pro-jihad?
Horrific events unfurled on October 7th when the terrorist group Hamas paraglided into Israel to kidnap and murder civilians. This led to a significant number of large gatherings in the UK of those who want to offer support to the Palestinians. Some, however, show that support by actively lauding the terrorists. Whatever view you take of the longstanding conflict between Israel and Palestinians, it provokes high and extreme emotions and recent public declarations that, to onlookers, seem very much like incitement to violence and hatred towards Jews.
It seems reasonable to assume that we would see immediate action from the police, who have been consumed over recent years by the battle against “hate” and the importance of validating the subjective perceptions of self identified victims. Women who think sex is real and that it matters have been at the very sharp end of this dedication in recent years, as the police enthusiastically deployed the “Allport” scale against women who believe that sex is real and it matters.
Any recognition of biological reality, be it on social media, a sticker, or a ribbon on a fence, has led to immediate police action, justified on the basis that such comments are seen as “hateful” and such “hate” is just a short skip and a jump to genocide. Therefore it must be firmly squashed before it “escalates”. We have seen Kellie Jay Keen interviewed at least three times by various forces for her declarations that men cannot be women; Jennifer Swayne arrested and her house searched and books seized for stickering declarations of biological reality around Newport.
Sadly, my reasonable assumption that the police would be keen to tackle hate wherever they found it, proved false. On 21st October 2023 the Metropolitan police issued a public statement about the Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain protest which took place that day alongside a larger protest organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign. The Counter Extremism Project tells me that Hizb ut-Tahrir is an international Islamist movement seeking to unite Muslims under one Islamic caliphate and its members have been linked to violent acts in multiple countries. It is a banned organisation in at least 13 countries.
Read also: Twelve things more arrestable than calling for jihad by Ben Sixsmith
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