Monday, November 24, 2014

Pro-Israel activists ask MPs to halt non-violent BDS protests

Zionist activists have urged British MPs to implement new legislation that police could use to stop non-violent, pro-BDS protests.

Manchester-based group North-West Friends of Israel have urged politicians to give police more power to stop boycotts of businesses by pro-Palestine solidarity activists.

As cited in a report by The Jewish Chronicle, the group's co-chair Anthony Dennison wants the Public Order Act amended "to allow police to halt non-violent protests, if they disrupted 'the lawful right of customers and shops to trade'." .... https://www.middleeastmonitor.com