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		</div><p><strong>The Metropolitan Police is investigating alleged hate crimes at both major protests in London as officers are still searching for seven suspects from the pro-Palestine Nakba Day rally.</p>
<p>About 60,000 people are estimated to have joined Tommy Robinson’s Unite the Kingdom march on Saturday, and between 15,000 and 20,000 attended the Nakba Day rally, the Met said.</p>
<p>A total of 43 arrests were made, 20 were linked to the Unite the Kingdom protest, while 12 were affiliated with the Nakba protest, the force added.</p>
<p>The remaining 11 arrests were not linked to either group, or their affiliation has not been confirmed, the Met said.</p>
<p>About 4,000 police officers were on duty on Saturday.</strong></p>
<p>Four officers were assaulted on Saturday and six were subjected to hate crime offences, the force said in a post on X on Saturday evening.</p>
<p>There were arrests for 11 hate crime related offences. Of those arrested two were allegedly affiliated to the Nakba Day rally and nine to Unite the Kingdom, police said.</p>
<figure id="attachment_188151" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-188151" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/IMG_1695.jpeg" alt="" width="640" height="480" class="size-full wp-image-188151" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-188151" class="wp-caption-text">Police say between 15,000 and 20,000 attended the Nakba Day rally</figcaption></figure>
<p>They included offences motivated by race, religion, sexuality and disability.</p>
<p>A further seven hate crime offences remain under investigation with outstanding suspects. All are from the Nakba Day protest.</p>
<p>Three arrests were as a result of the use of live facial recognition, the Met added. All three were people wanted for failing to appear at court. None were affiliated to the protests taking place the same day.</p>
<p>Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, posted a video on X from the protest in which he said: “Keir Starmer, the country’s awake, your days are numbered.”</p>
<p>In another he claimed there were millions at the march.</p>
<p>When he spoke on stage Robinson urged the crowds to get involved in local politics.</p>
<figure id="attachment_188153" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-188153" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/IMG_1696.jpeg" alt="" width="640" height="427" class="size-full wp-image-188153" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-188153" class="wp-caption-text">Jeremy Corbyn said Westminster needed a change in policy rather than personalities</figcaption></figure>
<p>Other speakers included former Apprentice candidate Katie Hopkins, television personality Ant Middleton, former actor Laurence Fox and former Conservative MP Andrew Bridgen.</p>
<p>Siobhan Whyte, the mother of Rhiannon Whyte, who was murdered by a Sudanese asylum seeker, told the Unite the Kingdom protest that British Prime Minister Keir Starmer “failed my daughter”.</p>
<p>Polish politician Dominik Tarczynski, who claimed to have been banned by Starmer from entering the UK before the rally, appeared on stage via videolink.</p>
<p>Organisers of the pro-Palestine rally estimated at least a quarter of a million people attended.</p>
<p>Labour MP Apsana Begum told protesters at the rally that the movement would not be divided by the “far right”.</p>
<p>MP Diane Abbott said they faced a “common enemy” in the “far right”.</p>
<p>She added: “They are viciously right-wing, viciously racist, they are anti-black, anti-Muslim, and viciously antisemitic.</p>
<p>“We have to come together… to fight the racists, to fight the fascists, to fight the antisemites.”</p>
<p>Your Party co-founder Zarah Sultana told the protesters that Andy Burnham was “not an alternative” to Starmer and “is another establishment politician cut from the same Zionist cloth”.</p>
<p>Former Labour leader and Your Party co-founder Jeremy Corbyn told supporters at the pro-Palestine rally in Pall Mall that Westminster needs a change in “policy” not “personalities”.</p>
<p>Prosecutors had been told to consider whether protest placards, banners and chants viewed on social media may amount to offences of stirring up hatred during the rallies.</p>
<p>The new guidance urges prosecutors to assess whether slogans, symbols or chants may influence audiences online if they are filmed and shared.</p>
<p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said the revised advice was designed to reflect “the changing international context” and follows separate guidance concerning the fast-tracking of hate crime prosecutions issued earlier this month.</p>
<p>The guidance tells prosecutors to take account of the wider context around protests, including heightened tensions linked to national or international events.</p>
<p>Recent criminal cases have resulted in people being charged after shouting “death to the IDF (Israel Defence Forces)” and “globalise the intifada”.</p>
<p>The British Government had also blocked 11 foreign nationals described by Starmer as “far-right agitators” from entering the UK ahead of the Unite the Kingdom rally.</p>
<p>Drones were going to be used to monitor both protest routes, while officers in Wembley would monitor CCTV feeds from the FA Cup final to identify supporters travelling towards demonstrations, Commander Clair Haynes said previously.</p>
<p>For the first time under official protest restrictions, organisers of the rallies will face prosecution as well as any speakers who break the law by using the events as a platform for extremism or hate speech.</p>
<p>Live facial recognition was going to be used for the first time in a protest policing operation, and cameras were set up in an area of Camden that was not on the route of the Unite the Kingdom march, but was expected to be used by a lot of people attending the event.</p>
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