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The Metropolitan Police has been branded 'beyond appalling' after an officer threatened to arrest a Jewish man trying to cross the road during a pro-Palestine march because his 'presence was antagonising'.
The man, who said he trying to walk around the capital after going to a synagogue, was filmed being pulled aside by a police officer who said he was 'breaching the peace' because he was 'quite openly Jewish'.
In a video shared by Campaign Against Antisemitism from Saturday's march, the man - who was wearing a kippah on his head - tells the officer: 'I don't want to stay here, I want to leave.'
The officer then replies: 'In that case sir, when the crowd is gone I will happily escort you out.'
After the defiant man attempts to walk across the road in the Aldwych area, the officer blocks him and says: 'I don't want anybody antagonising anybody... at the moment sir, you are quite openly Jewish.
'This is a pro-Palestinian march. I am not accusing you of anything but I am worried about the reaction to your presence.'
The Metropolitan Police has been branded 'beyond appalling' after an officer threatened to arrest a Jewish man for 'breaching the peace' as he is stopped from crossing the road
The officer says: 'Your presence here is antagonising a large group of people that we can't deal with all of them if they attack you.'
The man was interviewed alongside the footage and accused the Met of failing to make London safe for Jews
Later on, the same officer says: 'There's a unit of people here now. You will be escorted out of this area so you can go about your business, go where you want freely or if you choose to remain here because you are causing a breach of peace, with all these other people, you will be arrested.'
He clarifies: 'Your presence here is antagonising a large group of people that we can't deal with all of them if they attack you... because your presence is antagonising them.'
The video has sparked another backlash for the Met who have been accused of failing to make London safe for Jews. Robert Largan, the MP for High Peak, Derbyshire, shared the video and wrote: 'This is beyond appalling'.
At another protest last month, an officer told a Jewish woman that swastikas 'need to be taken into context' when she reported seeing the Nazi logo on posters at a pro-Palestine march.
At the time, Jocelin Weiss, 30, told MailOnline: 'I think there's a problem with a lack of basic education for this police force.'
Speaking about the latest incident, the Jewish man said he felt sympathetic towards frontline officers who are put in 'impossible positions' every week when they are asked to police huge protests 'where there's all sorts of criminality on display'.
This officer blocks the Jewish man from crossing the road and later threatens to arrest him
Another clip from the protest was also shared of a second officer telling the Jewish man: 'I
