One month into the genocide in Gaza, London’s Metropolitan Police Service issued a public appeal urging pro-Palestine organisations to postpone any protests. The police commissioner had defied calls from the government to ban the protests, stating that there was no intelligence to suggest that the protests would pose any threat or violate any law. Yet, this did not prevent the police from calling upon people not to participate in the protest. Soon after, Declassified UK revealed that senior officers in the London police including the commissioner, had long been accepting invitations and gifts from an Israeli think tank closely tied to its government, intelligence and military establishment. In January this year, the British government invited Oded Basyuk, the Israeli general who heads the Israel Defence Forces’ Operations Directorate, to attend official meetings with the United Kingdom’s defence ministry, foreign office and cabinet office. In September last year, the German interior…

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