87-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Questioned By Police Over Gaza Protest

87-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Questioned By Police Over Gaza Protest

March 25, 2025

Double Down News - Richard Sanders

Khalid Abdalla, the British-Egyptian star of the hit show The Crown, and 87-year-old Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos are among those who have been ordered to attend formal interviews with the Metropolitan Police over alleged public order breaches at a pro-Palestine rally in London in January.

Abdalla, who played Princess Diana's lover Dodi Fayed in the hit Netflix drama The Crown, said on Monday: "I received a letter from the Metropolitan Police summoning me to attend 'a formal interview' in relations to the Palestine Solidarity Campaign protest of Jan 18th."

So far, 21 people have been charged so far over the protest, the police said. They include the rally's chief steward Chris Nineham and Palestine Solidarity campaign director Ben Jamal.

The Met accused demonstrators on 18 January of breaking through a police cordon in Trafalgar Square, a claim which organisers and protesters, including prominent politicians, strongly deny.

Kapos, 87, who has been summoned for a police interview, was a child survivor of the Holocaust in Hungary who later fled to Britain in the wake of the Soviet invasion in 1956.

The Palestine Coalition, which organised the rally, said: "This apparently co-ordinated attack against the Palestine solidarity movement is endeavouring to halt public protest on the issue, through harassment of those involved in the movement, and through increasingly draconian restrictions on demonstrations.

"We demand that the Metropolitan Police halt any prosecutions or proceedings against those involved in this entirely peaceful protest.

"We further insist that the Metropolitan Police respects the right to protest and that it ceases to take instruction from those who are determined to back Israel's genocidal actions, to maintain British state support for them, and to drive our movement off the streets."

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