19/08/2026
Witnessing Police ‘Impartiality’?
12 August 2026
Jason Reading
Incident 1: Monday 23 June 2025, at the British Medical Association (BMA) annual representatives meeting, ACC conference centre in Liverpool - a group of doctors and healthcare workers handed out leaflets encouraging delegates to support motions proposing BMA action against the Palestinian genocide and defending the rights of doctors and medical students to voice opposition to the genocide and destruction of the healthcare system in Gaza. One doctor entered the centre saying loudly, ‘Palestinians should be wiped off the face of the earth.’ Shocked healthcare workers reported to Merseyside Police asking them to investigate this as a hate crime. It was also reported to conference security and BMA staff managing the conference, who later advised the doctor had been identified and expelled from the conference.
Months later Merseyside Police reported the case is ‘complicated’ and ‘difficult evidentially’, and the identity of the suspect is unknown, however the complainant insisted they continue. After two months of hearing nothing, contact with Merseyside Police advised the case was closed, due to being ‘misclassified’ as a time-limited Section 5 Public Order offence causing it to lapse, rather than a Section 4A offence (no time-limit).
Following complaints with the IOPC and complaints from a group of BMA doctors the case was reopened. Today, one year after the alleged hate crime, with the doctor concerned expelled from the BMA (he’s appealed), and several months since reopening, the Zionist doctor has still not been contacted or interviewed by the police. (at the time of writing)
Incident 2: Summer 2025, Liverpool - peaceful pro-Palestinian protestors held billboards condemning the Gaza genocide and the Zionist, apartheid Israeli state. A male suddenly and violently attacked two woman activists (a pensioner and 59-year-old) and shattered a chair supporting a billboard. The women tried to escape just as a passing teenage schoolboy stepped in to protect them and was himself assaulted. The police were called and the Zionist man was arrested and charged with assault. Just as the case was due to be heard, the victims were notified that the case could not proceed as the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) deemed it ‘not in the public interest’.
Incident 3: Midday 10 January 2025 - Palestine activist erecting a ‘Free Palestine’ flag on a tree in Liverpool was asked by a traffic cop what he was doing, he explained ‘raising the profile of Palestine and the ongoing genocide.’ And that was it, however when he returned to his car in the nearby ASDA car park he was surrounded by policemen and several police cars, was handcuffed, arrested, and detained on suspicion of committing a hate crime under sections 17 &18 of the Public Order Act (1986). Then transferred to a custody suite in Birkenhead, Wirral, interviewed under caution and held overnight, denied a phone-call as his house was being searched, then released under police bail at 4 a.m. After walking 6 miles home, he found his wife distraught after 8 male police officers came at 8 p.m. the previous evening, searched the house and informed her of his detention. After being bailed multiple times the case was eventually dropped, classified ‘No Further Action’.
Apparently earlier that day, posters criticising Israel, Netanyahu and the Gaza genocide were attached to trees adjacent to ASDA. A Jewish resident returning from the nearby multi-faith cemetery took offence and claimed to be the victim of hate crime. The instantaneous response of Merseyside Police to this complaint lies in stark contrast to their response to the Zionist doctor loudly inciting genocide, with witnesses, ‘Palestinians should be wiped off the face of the earth’.
Incident 4: Recently outside Westminster Magistrates Court, London at a Defend Our Juries protest, a Muslim man peacefully observing and filming from across the street was verbally attacked by a self-identified Jewish Zionist. The Muslim man defended himself verbally and the Zionist immediately demanded nearby police arrest the Muslim man.
He was arrested, denied any right to relate his side, spent several hours in a police van, and was then taken to a London police station. The desk sergeant expressed surprise and asked what the grounds for arrest were, as the arresting-officer was unable to answer the sergeant released him without charge. No action was taken against the Zionist instigator and no effort made to interview witnesses.
Conclusion: All four incidents raise serious concerns over fairness and impartiality of the police service and CPS. These are not isolated incidents in the context and experiences of pro-Palestinian activists in Liverpool and across the UK and effectively demonstrates the institutional bias and racism inherent within the police service, as concluded by other landmark investigative reports into UK policing.
