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A Jewish man has claimed he was arrested after his Star of David "antagonised" pro-Palestine protesters. The suspect, a lawyer in his 40s, says he was handcuffed and detained by police for almost 10 hours after officers told him the religious symbol could cause "offence", reports suggest.
He was arrested at a pro-Palestine demonstration outside the Israeli Embassy in central London on August 29 in what he described as an attempt by the Metropolitan Police to "criminalise the wearing of a Star of David". The lawyer told The Telegraph that he had attended the protest as an independent legal observer while wearing the six-pointed star on a silver chain around his neck.
He alleged that officers accused him of "antagonising" the crowd as part of a counter-protest before bundling him into a "meat wagon" and holding him for questioning at Hammersmith police station until 4:30am the following morning.
A spokesperson for the Met said the claim that he had been arrested for wearing the Star of David was "not true" and that he had instead "repeatedly breached public order conditions that were in place to keep opposing protest groups apart".
However, the suspect, who is on police bail while enquiries into the incident continue, said: "It is outrageous that police should claim wearing a Star of David somehow antagonises people. When it was first raised in the police interview, it rang alarm bells for me immediately. Police crossed the line.
"They are trying to criminalise the wearing of a Star of David. They said I was antagonising and agitating pro-Palestine protesters with my Star of David. In an environment of anti-semitism, I will now be cowed by this. I will carry on wearing it."
In footage seen by The Telegraph, the man was questioned by a detective constable on whether he had been wearing "anything that overtly identifies [him] as a legal observer" and accused him of "approaching the pro-Palestine protesters" with his camera.
The constable added: "If people go to the police with a feeling you are antagonising them, shouldn't police act on that information?"
He was also quoted as saying: "The officers have noted in their statements that they believed because the Star of David was out and present to people ... they felt that was antagonising the situation further.
"We are talking about a very niche environment where tensions are high, where two sides are coming together, have adverse opinions, adverse views. We are not talking about [the suspect's] human rights in terms of what he is wearing in a public forum."
A spokesperson for the Met added: "The conditions [of the Public Order Act] required protesters from the pro-Israel group, Stop the Hate, to remain in one area while protesters from the pro-Palestinian group, IJAN, were required to remain in a separate area.
"Over the course of an hour, the man is alleged to have continuously approached the area allocated to IJAN, getting very close to protesters to film them and in doing so provoking a reaction. Officers had to intervene on at least four occasions to ask the man to return to the Stop the Hate area. When he failed to do so after multiple warnings, he was arrested."