Angry Jewish leaders urge Scotland Yard chief Mark Rowley to quit, saying they have lost faith in police after officer threatened to arrest 'openly Jewish man' at pro-Palestinian rally

Angry Jewish leaders past nighttime told Scotland Yard main Mark Rowley to quit, saying they had mislaid religion successful the police.

The embattled Metropolitan Police Commissioner volition this week beryllium hauled earlier Home Secretary James Cleverly and policing curate Chris Philp, who are said to beryllium profoundly acrophobic aft an serviceman threatened to apprehension an 'openly Jewish' antheral adjacent a pro-Palestinian rally.

Downing Street said Rishi Sunak was 'appalled' by the footage. He wants an mentation for the behaviour and assurances that it volition not beryllium repeated.

The Prime Minister is not pushing for Sir Mark to beryllium sacked, and neither is London Mayor Sadiq Khan, who said the commissioner enjoyed his confidence, contempt calling him successful for an 'urgent' gathering today.

But Jewish groups said they had nary assurance successful the Met to support them harmless and were asking however galore much pro-Palestinian protests they person to endure implicit the struggle successful Gaza. They accidental the marches person turned areas of London into 'no-go zones' astatine weekends and sparked a grounds summation successful anti-Semitism and hatred crime.

A Whitehall root said determination was an 'ongoing dialogue' betwixt ministers and the Met astir the policing of marches successful the capital, including implicit whether they should beryllium allowed to proceed connected specified a regular basis. 'The Met has a batch of powers, including the quality to prohibition marches wherever determination is simply a menace to nationalist order,' the root said. 'We privation to marque definite they are utilizing those powers appropriately.

'But determination are besides questions for Sadiq Khan. He is liable for holding the Met to relationship and ensuring London's streets are harmless for everyone – what is helium doing to woody with this incident?'

Sir Mark is besides owed to conscionable Marie van der Zyl, the president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, implicit a 'grievous nonaccomplishment of confidence' successful the Met, with the latest ailment sparked by past week's enactment with Gideon Falter, main enforcement of the Campaign Against Antisemitism.

Mr Falter, who was walking location from a synagogue erstwhile helium came crossed a march, was warned that helium risked 'antagonising' the situation.

'You are rather openly Jewish... I americium disquieted astir the absorption to your presence,' an serviceman told him. Ms van der Zyl said: 'The Metropolitan Police has made a bid of high-profile errors successful their responses to these demonstrations. The wholly avoidable mistakes person had a devastating effect connected the antecedently precocious level of spot held by the UK's Jewish assemblage successful the police.'

Jonathan Turner, main enforcement of UK Lawyers for Israel, said: 'I deliberation Mark Rowley should go. He has mislaid the assurance of a ample portion of the Jewish community.'

The Community Security Trust, a foundation that protects British Jews from anti-Semitism, wants the instrumentality tightened to halt the protests, saying: 'The broader question this incidental raises is however overmuch longer these costly and disruptive protests volition beryllium allowed to proceed astatine times and places that interaction not conscionable Jewish people, but everyone.

'It feels similar immoderate equilibrium betwixt the close to protestation and the rights of everyone other has been wholly lost, with extremists the lone 1 to benefit.'

Rank-and-file officers past nighttime joined the calls for much robust policing of pro-Palestine demonstrations. Police Federation president Rick Prior told The Daily Telegraph: 'A much robust policing of these protests would beryllium beneficial. We request to marque a committedness to the Jewish assemblage to basal retired anti-Semitism connected these marches.'

A Campaign Against Antisemitism spokesperson added: 'Sir Mark Rowley is simply a antheral scrambling to prevention his job.

'The clip for meetings has passed. We request a caller commissioner who understands that the occupation of the constabulary is to apprehension criminals, not their targets.'

Former location caput Suella Braverman besides demanded that Sir Mark resign, telling The Sunday Telegraph that radical who are 'flagrantly anti-Semitic' were being 'waved connected by the police'. Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden suggested that Scotland Yard had been 'disrespecting' Jews.

But past nighttime Sir Mark's occupation appeared harmless arsenic a spokesperson for Mr Khan said: 'The Met indispensable person the assurance of the communities they service and it is close that they person apologised for the mode the incidental was handled and their archetypal nationalist response.'

The Met Police said: 'We stay focused connected doing everything imaginable to guarantee Jewish Londoners consciousness harmless successful this city.'

The Home Office said: 'We invited the Met Police's apology, and recognise the complexities of policing fast-moving nationalist protests, but simply being Jewish – oregon of immoderate different contention oregon religion – should ne'er beryllium seen arsenic provocative.'