Most of the chants and banners contained robust anti-Israeli slogans, and one protester held a banner with photos of Sunak, US President Joe Biden, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with the message “Needed For Warfare crimes”.
Police had cautioned earlier than the march that anybody displaying help for Hamas, banned as a terrorist organisation in Britain, would face arrest, and any incident of hate crime wouldn’t be tolerated.
The protest appeared peaceable and there have been no instant stories of any arrests.
Figures on Friday confirmed there had been a 1,353 per cent enhance in antisemitic offences this month in comparison with the identical interval final 12 months, whereas Islamophobic offences have been up 140 per cent.
“This has been a problem which has lengthy stimulated passions and we at the moment are all seeing on social media and in our communities, how divisive and polarising the present scenario has change into,” British international minister James Cleverly mentioned at a peace summit in Cairo.