{"id":6339,"date":"2025-10-04T14:50:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T12:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/?p=6339"},"modified":"2025-10-04T14:50:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T12:50:42","slug":"met-police-chief-dishonest-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/2025-10-04\/met-police-chief-dishonest-racist\/","title":{"rendered":"The Met police chief proves he&#8217;s as dishonest and racist as the force he leads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"subtitle subtitle-HEEcLo\" dir=\"auto\"><em><strong>Sir Mark Rowley claims he is worried about rising &#8216;community tensions&#8217;. But the only tensions he cares about are those belonging to an imaginary community he has created of a Jewish hive mind<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Once again, the BBC laps up outright disinformation from Sir Mark Rowley, police commissioner of the institutionally racist and corrupt Met. Watch this short clip from the BBC News at Ten last night:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Met police chief proves he&#8217;s as dishonest and racist as the force he leads:<\/p>\n<p>Once again, the BBC laps up outright disinformation from Sir Mark Rowley, police commissioner of the institutionally racist and corrupt Met. Watch the short clip below from the BBC News at Ten last\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/18lvzfXWKm\">pic.twitter.com\/18lvzfXWKm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jonathan Cook (@Jonathan_K_Cook) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jonathan_K_Cook\/status\/1974448711234191549?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 4, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>1. Rowley demands supporters of Palestine Action cancel or delay their protest today, after the Manchester synagogue attack, because the timing appears \u201cantisemitic\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>How to untangle this nonsense?<\/p>\n<p>a) The only possible way to interpret Rowley\u2019s argument is that he believes every British Jew identifies and supports Israel\u2019s mass slaughter of children in Gaza and therefore, out of respect for their grief at the Manchester attack, we ought not to protest against the slaughter in Gaza. That undoubtedly makes Rowley the antisemitic one.<\/p>\n<p>b) Even were his deeply antisemitic idea true \u2013 that British Jews are an unthinking herd of genocidal monsters \u2013 Rowley assumes that we ought to be okay with this: we should just keep quiet about Israel murdering 100 or so Palestinians every day in Gaza, and starving and ethnically cleansing the rest of the population, because it would supposedly offend Britain\u2019s Jewish community to do otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>c) Rowley wants the protesters to take a time-out of a few weeks, even while Israel refuses to take any time-out on murdering Palestinians. Nor is the British government taking a time-out in arming Israel and providing it with intelligence to carry out the genocide. Rowley is suggesting we should simply quieten down for the next few weeks, even as 100 Palestinians are killed each day, before heading back to the streets. He thereby sends an unequivocal message that Palestinian life is worthless \u2013 and he does it while claiming we are the racist ones.<\/p>\n<p>2. Rowley claims he wants this weekend\u2019s protests stopped because of the danger they will raise \u201ccommunity tensions, which is my concern\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>And yet from everything he says, the only community\u2019s \u201ctensions\u201d he appears to care about are those of an imaginary one he has created of a Jewish hive mind.<\/p>\n<p>What about the tensions of Palestinian communities, of wider Muslim and Arab communities, of human communities, of those parts of the Jewish community opposed to Israel\u2019s slaughter in Gaza, produced by watching children being torn to shreds by bombs Britain is helping to supply to Israel, by seeing world citizens \u2013 including British citizens \u2013 being abducted in international waters by Israel as they try to break Israel\u2019s illegal starvation-siege of Gaza?<\/p>\n<p>Does Rowley care about these communities and their <em>tensions<\/em>, tensions that will only heighten if they are denied their long-established democratic rights to go out on to the streets to protest \u2013 rights that have already been aggressively whittled away by successive British governments?<\/p>\n<p>3. Rowley says he finds it \u201cbewildering\u201d why more than 1,000 people would want to get arrested for \u201csupporting a terrorist organisation\u201d \u2013 and berates them for taking up police resources at a time when those resources are needed elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, Rowley knows there is nothing \u201cbewildering\u201d about their protests. These thousands of British citizens, and millions behind them who are less courageous, are prepared to risk jail, and damage their careers and their futures, with a \u201cterrorism\u201d conviction. They are prepared to do so because they believe the proscription of Palestine Action \u2013 the first such proscription in British history for a direct-action group following in the tradition of the Suffragettes \u2013 is an assault on our fundamental right to protest, and to protest against the criminality of our own institutions, in this case institutions actively supporting a genocide in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>If Rowley does not believe he has the resources to arrest the 1,000-plus people who will be sitting quietly in Parliament Square today holding placards opposing the genocide, then he can simply let them be. The sky will not fall in. No one will get hurt. There will be no threat to either public or national security.<\/p>\n<p>The true danger \u2013 the danger that Rowley and the government of Sir Keir Starmer really worry about \u2013 is that ever more people are beginning to understand that we are ruled by a gang of authoritarian, genocide-assisting criminals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Mark Rowley claims he is worried about rising &#8216;community tensions&#8217;. 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