Police seize placard with Nazi-style imagery at pro-Palestine protest in London

factcheka
Published on Oct 31, 2023
Police seized a placard at Saturday’s pro-Palestine demonstation suggesting Israel was carrying out a Nazi-style genocide.

Two officers challenged one of the demonstrators after he was spotted carrying a small handwritten cardboard poster that drew a timeline between the German mass extermination of Jews in the 1940’s to the Israeli bombing of Gaza this year.

The Nazi swastika had been drawn alongside the “1940’s holocaust” section and then a Star of David from the Israeli flag was etched next to the “2023 holocaust”.

A clip posted online showed the protester complaining that “freedom of speech” should allow him to draw the comparison. However, the officers insisted “you can’t display the Nazi symbol in public”.

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