Suella Braverman calls pro-Palestine demos ‘hate marches’

Braverman has written to police officers urging them to take a zero-tolerance approach to antisemitism. Photograph: Thomas Krych/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock

Suella Braverman has described the demonstrators taking to the streets in support of a ceasefire in Gaza as being involved in “hate marches”.

In words that will anger some peace campaigners, the home secretary said “tens of thousands of people” had taken to the streets and had “chanted for the erasure of Israel from the map”.