London Cop Threatens To Arrest A Man For Being 'Openly Jewish'

Posted • September 23, 2025: Now, we will start this off with a caveat: This video is from around April, 2024, so it’s not exactly breaking news. But we are bringing this to your attention now because 1) we never showed you the video when it originally happened, 2) a new post sharing the video on Twitter/X is getting attention and 3) holy crap! What the heck, London?! With all that being said, here’s the video: “You are quite openly Jewish.” - “If you choose to remain here you will be arrested for breaching the peace.” In Sadiq Kahn’s diverse & inclusive London - Police threaten you with arrest just for being Jewish in areas of the City people might take offence to that. The Jewish man was Gideon Falter, chief executive of the Campaign Against Antisemitism. His headwear is a kippah, a.k.a. a yarmulke.

And the cop was concerned that if an ‘openly Jewish’ person came near the ‘campaign of love and tolerance’ known as the ‘Free Palestine’ movement, that the loving and tolerant apologists for Hamass might get agitated and attack him. So, in the cop’s eyes, Falter was committing a criminal act, breaching the peace, if he peacefully walked near those completely peaceful and loving protesters. Of course, we are sure you detected a fair amount of sarcasm in the last paragraph. We all know that these ‘Free Palestine’ protesters are not peaceful. It’s not impossible to support a terrorist organization with peaceful protest, but it is at least contradictory to do so. ‘I support violent terrorists! But … peacefully!’ is not the most natural sentiment. And of course, ‘Free Palestine’ in a misnomer, too, much like Anti-FA (which is actually a fascist organization pretending to be anti-fascist). Hamass isn’t fighting for ‘freedom’ in any way normal people understand that term.

Hamass doesn’t allow freedom in Gaza. You have no free speech, you certainly don’t have elections and if you are gay they will literally execute you by throwing you off a roof—that is, if there are any buildings left standing in the area. So, the only ‘freedom’ they seem to want is to be free of Jews. And when they say ‘Palestine’ they also mean ‘from the river to the sea’ meaning basically all of Israel. So ‘Free Palestine’ is a coded call to ‘free’ what is now Israel of jews. It is a call for genocide: A second holocaust. Basically, it is word games all the way down with the left and this is one of the nastiest examples. Thus, obviously, it is dangerous for a person to be ‘openly Jewish’ around such people. And there is nothing wrong with making sure such a person is seeing the risks with open eyes. This author has sometimes said to people who wanted to tangle with dangerous people: ‘I am not telling you not to do this, but I want you to understand the risks before you do so.’

But for the cop to think somehow the peaceful Jewish man is at fault when other people get violent just at the sight of him is inexcusable. In American law, that is forbidden. In Forsyth County v. Nationalist Movement, 505 U.S. 123 (1992) the Supreme Court said that ‘Listeners’ reaction to speech is not a content-neutral basis for regulation.’ In other words, you can’t silence a person because you think someone else will get angry and get violent. The correct response in that situation is to control the people who would get violent, rather than the people who plan to express themselves peacefully. (And for the record, wearing a yarmulke is a form of expression. It’s no great stretch to say that people often express themselves through their clothes and in this case, Mr. Falter’s clothing was not only born out of religious obligation but it was an expression of his religious identity.) Because the alternative is to give people the worst possible incentives.

If we are going to blame a peaceful speaker—that is, a person who is not engaged in threats or incitement of violence—for the violence of the listeners and silence the speaker as a result, then it sends the message to anyone listening: If you want to silence your opponent, all you have to do is get violent. In the First Amendment community, we call this a ‘heckler’s veto’ and in America, that is prohibited. This is true, even if the people getting violent on the surface seem to agree with the speaker. After all, if the violence of people who seem to follow you justifies censorship, then all a person’s opponents have to do is pretend they agree with their opponents and then get violent and they will be rewarded with their opponents being censored. Incidentally, according to the AP article, the police even screwed up when apologizing to Falter and the Jewish community: https://apnews.com/article/uk-police-apology-openly-jewish-protest-e76103e4d8108b55f49e8907287de859

And, of course the AP tries to run interference for the pro-genocide side of the argument. We’re surprised they even admitted that the attack on October 7, 2023 was carried out by Hamass (although they can’t seem to spell their name the correct way we spell it). But everyone knows the score. It is dangerous to be near a pro-Hamass protest, especially if you are Jewish. Again, we aren’t telling our Jewish friends not to go near such protests. They might find it useful to expose the violence behind the pro-Hamass movement much like Dr. King exposed the violence supporting American segregation. Just make sure you understand the risks before you do it. And if you weren’t sure if all of this was an isolated incident or not, here’s a whole thread of people being arrested or threatened with arrest for being ‘openly Jewish’ around those loving and peaceful pro-Hamass protesters. We are skipping the first because it the same video of Falter being threatened with arrest: (…)

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