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The Home Secretary voiced regret that Palestinian-supporting demonstrations continued on Thursday evening following the terror attack that took the lives of two men outside a Jewish place of worship in the city of Manchester.
Britain's top security official also called on protesters to "step back" from intentions to stage protests in the next few days.
"I believe that proceeding in this manner appears contrary to British values, it seems wrong," she stated about demonstrations arranged for this weekend.
Demonstrators in downtown London demonstrating against the Israel's naval forces intercepting a flotilla transporting humanitarian assistance to Gaza had confrontations with police officers outside the Prime Minister's residence on Thursday evening.
Substantial groups holding flags of Palestine and signs could be observed on Whitehall throughout the evening.
The police force stated that fourty individuals had been taken into custody. A half-dozen of those detained were detained over assaults on law enforcement personnel.
"It's essential to draw a line between events unfolding in the Middle East and situations developing at in our country," the home secretary stated during a morning news program on Friday morning.
"I would say to people who are considering to participate in a protest is to pause and reflect for a moment, and imagine if you had suffered the loss of a family member to a terrorist incident in this nation," she added.
There were "strong" authorities to defend the freedom to demonstrate, she stated, but they could be set aside on the advice of the police.
"I can act based from the police, if they were to inform me there was an inability to respond and to control the demonstrations, then there are authorities that are available," she clarified.
Community representatives voice concerns
Britain's senior rabbinical leader remarked that many people of the Jewish population wondered why protests in solidarity of Palestinian advocacy groups had been permitted to occur.
The movement was outlawed as a terror group in July. At various protests after that, hundreds have been arrested for expressing solidarity for the organization, which has won authorization to dispute the restriction.
"A portion of them include outright antisemitism, clear backing for the militant group. Not every single person, however there is considerable of this, which certainly is harmful to many within our community," the religious leader declared.
"It's impossible to disconnect the words on our public spaces, the actions of individuals in this manner, and what inevitably results, which was Thursday's violent act."
Additionally, he appealed to the administration "once more", to "assert authority on these demonstrations, they are dangerous."
