Rowley Has Decreed that ‘Globalise the Intifada’ is A Crime – Today I Repeated It Twice in A Speech As Sussex Police Looked On
The attack
on Jews at a Chanukah celebration in Australia has become the pretext for a crackdown on civil liberties and democratic rights. Mark
Rowley, Metropolitan Police Commissioner is to the fore in calling
for the suppression of the Palestine solidarity movement.
Sir Mark Rowley, the Heinrich Müller of the Met
Rowley, as part of his efforts to use British Jews as the Trojan horse for a Police State has repeatedly refused to meet with anti-Zionist Jews or the Palestine Coalition whilst meeting with pro-Genocide Zionist groups. For him, anti-racist Jews are as much the enemy as Palestinians.
Written
evidence to Parliament by Palestine Solidarity Campaign states that
The MPS has so far refused repeated requests
for an in-person meeting with representatives of the Jewish bloc and on at
least two occasions the police have sought to prevent them joining the march on
the grounds that, being Jewish, they were assumed to be counter demonstrators.
When people
call out the racism of the Metropolitan Police we should remember that it began
with colonial policing of the Irish, then moved onto Jews and is now manifested in anti-Muslim and anti-Black racism.
On Sunday
at midday I shall be one of 3 Jewish speakers at a webinar Scottish PSC is
holding on the the killings in Australia. London’s Gestapo Commissioner Rowley, alongside his Manchester understudy Stephen Watson, announced that the chant ‘Globalise
the Intifada’ was now an arrestable offence. In response I penned an open
letter to Rowley.
Never has your racism @metpoliceuk been so clear. In your statement you say 'Our thoughts are with those who lost their lives, their families and those injured.'
— Tony Greenstein tonygreenstein.com (@TonyGreenstein) December 18, 2025
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Dear Mark
Rowley,
You issued a statement recently which said that ‘Antisemitic hate crime has surged, protests have intensified, and online abuse has grown since 2023.’ This is the method of Nazism. Juxtaposing completely different phenomenon. Everything equals everything.
Your concern about racism is touching, even novel, given that you have turned a blind eye to it for so long. In February 2025 you told BBC's Today programme: "The public can have confidence in us." Your only gift is knowing how to lie. The very police station Charing X, whose racism and misogyny led to the sacking of your predecessor, Cressida Dick, was the subject of a Panorama programme Undercover in the Police which confirmed that you were a liar. Racism and sexism were everywhere.
As long as the Metropolitan
Police are led by a racist there is no hope of reform. You have made it clear
that the only racism you are interested in is ‘anti-Semitism’ – a prejudice not a form of racism. Attacks on Mosques and Muslims and Black people are no
concern of you. The only ‘racism’ that concerns you is that against privileged White people .
The
implication of your remarks were clear. Protests against genocide were responsible for the growth of anti-Semitism and on-line abuse. Such a sleight of
hand is worthy of Goebbels and is indicative of nothing so much as your own dishonesty.
There is no
evidence of a growth of anti-Semitism, unless you redefine it as opposition to Zionism,
ethnic cleansing and genocide. But let us assume I am wrong and there is a growth
in anti-Semitism, why is that?
The Israeli
government and the Zionist movement have branded all opposition to the genocide
in Gaza as ‘anti-Semitism’. If you oppose starving children you are anti-Semitic. Is it any wonder that some people believe
them and then target Jews?
No
one knows better than you the history of the Metropolitan
Police. From the murder
of Stephen Lawrence to the murder
and rape of Sarah Everard and the canteen culture of
Charing Cross Police, to say nothing of all the Black people you have murdered in
the line of duty (Roger Sylvester, Mark Duggan, Chris Kaba et al.).
Senior
Police officers even agreed
to the police spying on the Stephen Lawrence Defence Campaign. A fish rots from
the head down and the precondition of the Metropolitan Police reforming itself is your replacement.
When anti-Semitism
was a genuine form of racism in the 1930s, anti-Semitism was
rife amongst the Police. Today when Jews are the moral alibi and the
pretext for the British ruling class support for Israel then ‘anti-Semitism’
is a concern of the Police.
When I
asked Google’s AI ‘were the Metropolitan police antisemitic during the 1930s
and sympathetic to the British Union of Fascists and National Socialists ’,
which was led by Sir Oswald Moseley, the results were instructive and shed a
light on your concern about ‘anti-Semitism’ now.
It is also instructive
to refer to Daniel Sonabend’s book ‘We
Fight Fascists’ about the fight of the mainly Jewish Anti-Fascist 43 Group
after 1945 and the anti-Semitism of the Metropolitan Police.
It
describes how the head of 'G' Division, Superintendent Charles Satterthwaite
shouted 'Fucking Jew bastard!' at a Jewish
anti-fascist Murry Silver as he repeatedly
beat him, whilst two of his officers held Silver against the wall. Satterthwaite was described by one member of
the 43 Group, Lennie Rolnick as a 'first class
anti-Semite who would have done well at Belsen (concentration camp)’.
Historian
Dave Renton found that anti-fascists were three times as likely to get arrested
as fascists. Sonabend asked why this was
and his answer was ‘Widespread anti-Semitism
in the Metropolitan Police force’. Nor was Satterthwaite the only officer who
made regular reference to the faith of the anti-fascist disruptors he was
arresting. Two young Group members from the East End, a hairdresser's assistant
called Vidal Sassoon and his friend Mo Levy, had a particularly nasty run-in with
the law, which Sassoon described in his autobiography.
One evening in Kilburn, we chased the fascists into a
pub and were ourselves chased by the police. They arrested three of us. It took
a long time to get to the police station which was only a few streets away. Two
policemen held one of my comrades, Mo Levy, while a sergeant pounded him, beating
him everywhere but the face, at the same time calling us 'dirty Jew bastards',
'fucking Yids who Hitler missed' and 'sons of foreign whores'.
Sonabend
writes that
Knowing they were dealing with an institutionally
anti Semitic organisation, the 43 Group's leadership were keen not to provoke
the police. In fact, they went out of their way to be cooperative.’
Have the Police changed? Yes in the sense they are no longer anti-Semitic,
because the Jews are no longer on the left nor are they working class. Note
that Sonabend described the Met as ‘institutionally
anti-Semitic’ just as Black people in the 1980s and 1990s were to describe
the Met as institutionally racist.
Jews have changed and the focus of
the Met’s racism has changed but that is all. The Metropolitan Police have
changed the target of their racism but they are still the same old uniformed racists.
Today support for Israel and Zionism is
the political rationale for their Islamophobia and anti-Muslim racism. Israel is the most anti-Muslim
country in the world and has formed an alliance with anti-Muslim
racists such as Tommy Robinson, who was an Israeli
government guest recently as well as individuals such as Dutch fascist, Geert Wilders.
In your statement Mark you said
that ‘Our thoughts are with those who
lost their lives, their families and those injured,’ referring to Jewish victims of the Australian attack. Over 100,000 Palestinians have been killed and hundreds
of thousands injured in Gaza. Children
have been starved
to death. Yet you haven’t even acknowledged the death
and destruction in Gaza. Your thoughts
are with Australian Jews but not Palestinian children. What other explanation for this is there
other than racism? Palestinian lives don’t matter because
they are an indigenous people, the victims of western colonialism.
In your pathetic statement
you say of Jewish people that
Jewish
children attend schools behind fences, guarded by security and routine police patrols.
No community should have to live like this. That must change.’
Really? If Jews are under siege it is a siege of their own and your making. You are deliberately making Jews into targets as a justification for the British State's support for Genocide. They are your colonial pets, hostages for your own malevolent intentions. Jews are the justification for the State's increased repression.
You say ‘Current laws are inadequate’. Really? You have been given more and more powers yet always you are dissatisfied. Perhaps when we have a fully fledged police state you will be satisfied? Or maybe when juries are finally abolished so that servile judges can be relied upon to rubber stamp your arrests and prosecutions.
It is not for you to comment on the adequacy of the law. Still less is it for you to define that law. For most people the laws are already too repressive and we know from past experience that it will be trade unionists, climate protesters, housing activists - indeed anyone bar employers and the rich who will feel their effects.
What you want is a police state where people like you dictate the political agenda. And speaking of dictating the political agenda you have all but outlawed chants such as “globalise the intifada”. Well I for one will make sure to include at least one mention of how the Intifada should be globalised.
That is why today at a demonstration
in Hove outside the offices of Vile Kyle MP, I repeated the slogan ‘Globalise
the Intifada’ to make it clear that we, not you, will decide what we say. Sussex police officers just looked on. So are we to have different laws
now for different cities? The Intifada is an Uprising against an Illegal Occupation. It
has nothing to do with British Jews, much as you would like to lay the blame
for Israel’s genocide on Jews.
We will not allow you to dictate what we are allowed to say and not say. You are paid to implement the law not to make the law.
We refuse to be stampeded into a
police state by those who use Jews as the pretext for abolishing freedom of
speech. When the Police decide what we are allowed to say and not say then we
are already on the road to dictatorship.
It is time to move on Mark Rowley.
You belong in a museum alongside all the other dinosaurs such as your role model, Gestapo Chief Heinrich Muller. As long as you are head of the Metropolitan Police we
can expect a continuation of the racism that led the Met 30 years ago to covering up for the killers of Stephen Lawrence.
Tony Greenstein
