Campaign Against Antisemitism cancels London march amid security concerns

Announced on X by the Campaign Against Antisemitism an hour ago.

There has been enormous interest in the Walk Together initiative for this Saturday, with thousands expected to attend.

@MetPoliceUK has told us of its desire to protect Jews walking in the area, but we have to be sure that they can. Thousands of people have been intending to join and then walk where they please – things we used to take for granted in London as Jewish people – but we do not have confidence that they would be safe. We have reluctantly decided not to go ahead tomorrow. We will be announcing our plans in the coming days. We are aware of many people who are likely to walk nonetheless, and we urge them to stay safe. Yesterday we met with the Home Secretary and the Minister for Policing to propose concrete measures which can force the police to change their approach. This situation cannot endure much longer and firm action is needed urgently, which we made clear at the meeting. Tomorrow, we will watch to see whether anything is different about the way that the Met handles the march, and in the coming week we will progress our discussions with the Government. We cannot allow the current situation to become the new normal.
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Further reported in the Telegraph

A spokesman for the group said: “We have received numerous threats and our monitoring has identified hostile actors who seem to have intended to come to any meeting locations that we announced.“The risk to the safety of those who wished to walk openly as Jews in London tomorrow as part of this initiative has therefore become too great. We are no less angry about these marches than our Jewish community and its allies. We want to walk. We want to force the Met to police these marches, not merely manage them. But we cannot encourage thousands of people to walk when there are such risks to their safety, and there are.”

The pro-Palestinian march will begin in Parliament Square at 1pm on Saturday and will take a route along Piccadilly and Park Lane before finishing Hyde Park.

A static pro-Israel “Enough is Enough” demonstration is due to take place in Pall Mall on Saturday afternoon but the two events are not scheduled to cross paths.