Video: Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos cheered as arrives for police interview over anti-genocide protest

Starmer keeps targeting Jewish people in his war on free speech and protest rights about Palestine and Israel

A large crowd of protesters cheered and embraced 87yo Jewish Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos as he arrived a Charing Cross police station, where he had been summoned for police questioning over a peaceful anti-genocide march on 18 January that police falsely claim ‘forced’ its way through police lines. Despite abundant video evidence showing the protesters were invited through, more than twenty people have so far been charged.

Kapos arrived, walking slowly with a stick, where supporters with Palestinian flags and keffiyeh scarves cheered and chanted “Defend Stephen Kapos” as he entered the station just after 2.30pm:

Leading anti-genocide and anti-apartheid campaigners, including Chris Nineham of Stop the War and Ben Jamal of Palestine Solidarity Campaign have been charged under the Public Order Act and MPs Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell have been questioned under caution as the Starmer regime continues its ‘lawfare’ war on free speech and peaceful protest against Israel’s genocide and warmongering, which has included the misuse of the Terrorism Act to seize activists and journalists in airports and in their homes and search their devices in a flagrant breach of democratic principles and their human rights that has been condemned by the United Nations. Many of Starmer’s victims, like Mr Kapos, are Jewish.

Direct action protesters are also being held for more than a year before trial, as the police-state Starmer regime tries to ‘make the process the punishment’, knowing that many will be exonerated by juries for their principled actions to save Palestinian lives.

Solidarity with Stephen Kapos and all who are targeted by Keir Starmer’s genocide-supporting regime.

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