Election posters put up around east London depicting a Jewish IDF soldier as ‘Labour’s monster’ have been reported to the police for ‘stirring up anti-Semitism’.
The posters found on Cable Street in Shadwell, Tower Hamlets, feature an image of an armed Israeli settler grinning and holding his phone up along with the words ‘Labour’s monsters’.
A report submitted to the Metropolitan Police by Alex Hearn, of Labour Against Anti-Semitism, claimed it was a breach of the Public Order Act, because the image was ‘selected to appear menacing’.
‘The monstrous characterisation is anchored specifically in Jewish religious identity markers, not Israeli military conduct generally. This
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