Op-Ed video: As the son of Holocaust survivors I feel safe at London's pro-Palestine marches
Professor Haim Bresheeth-Zabner, the son of Holocaust survivors, has hit back at claims that pro-Palestine marches in London are unsafe for Jewish people after Gideon Falter, the head of the Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA), claimed the Metropolitan Police was punishing him for being "openly Jewish."
Falter's altercation with the police, which involved the police threatening to arrest him, occurred just behind a group of Holocaust survivors' families, and reignited debate over whether the demonstrations against the war on Gaza are making Jewish people in the capital feel unsafe.
"I now feel safer than ever in London," said Bresheeth-Zabner, a Professorial Research Associate at SOAS University and author of An Army Like No Other: How the IDF Made a Nation.
"During the great Palestine demonstrations, everyone holds the Jewish people to heart," he said.
"There is no violence [at the protests]. There's no aggression, there's brotherhood and sisterhood and I think that's very much a London experience.
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"All of us know and understand [the war on Gaza] is the most vile thing that we have to end, we have to make sure that we play our part in ending this injustice, he added.
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