Met police accused of stopping pro-Palestine marches outside BBC HQ

The Metropolitan police say BBC Broadcasting House in London outside of which the Palestine Solidarity Campaign wants to protest is too close to the Central Synagogue. Photograph: Tayfun Salcı/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock

The Metropolitan police have been accused of in effect banning major pro-Palestine marches outside the BBC’s Broadcasting House headquarters in London.

Organisers of regular demonstrations over the events in Gaza said they had been told that a Saturday protest risked “serious disturbance” of Shabbat services at a nearby synagogue.