It is vital for UK's safety that Hamas must be destroyed

‘We hear the chants in London and worry what comes next’

- Stephen Pollard

WHEN 100,000 people take to the streets of London and cries of “jihad” and “intifada” ring out in front of the Palace of Westminster, it’s not just British Jews who should worry about what is happening.

Saturday’s “Free Palestine” demo was the third and the biggest of the marches on successive Saturdays that have followed Hamas’s brutal murder of 1,400 Israelis, along with their seizing of more than 200 hostages, on October 7.

There has been angst – and anger – across government (and far beyond) at the scenes.

Other marches have been organised in the past by the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign whenever Israel has taken military action. But none has been anything like as big – or more worrying.

You don’t need to be an expert in counter-terrorism to know what they mean – especially with regard to the safety of British citizens.

They are calls for the murder of Jews – and, more widely – for Islamist terror, which we know about all too well.

That’s why the Prime Minister chaired a Cobra meeting yesterday focused on domestic security. One of the issues that has troubled senior ministers to whom I have spoken in recent days has been the police’s failure to even look interested in tackling what has been happening, let alone to act.