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Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/23/jewish-protester-arrested-mocking-terrorist-leader/
Jewish Protester Charged in UK over Placard Mocking Terrorist Leader
(Telegraph-UK) Janet Eastham - A Jewish protester was detained by London Metropolitan Police and charged last September for holding up a cartoon that showed Hassan Nasrallah, the Lebanese terror chief, with a pager and the words "beep, beep, beep." Hizbullah is a terror group which is proscribed in the UK. However, during questioning, police repeatedly asked the man - who was part of a counter-demonstration against a pro-Palestinian march - if he believed the image would offend "pro-Hizbullah and anti-Israel" activists. He was charged under the Public Order Act for causing racially or religiously aggravated harassment, alarm or distress by words or writing. On May 10 - eight months after his ordeal began - the Crown Prosecution Service dropped the case, saying there was insufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction. Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, said, "In recent times, the police have failed to act when confronted with protesters calling for jihad and intifada in London. Yet this man was apparently arrested because he might have offended supporters of a banned terrorist organization." Lord Walney, the Government's former extremism tsar, said, "The idea that officers intervened on the side of supporters of a proscribed terrorist organization is grotesque."