Pro-Palestinian protests called 'not in keeping with British values' in the wake of Manchester terror incident, British interior minister states

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Britain's Interior Minister voiced dismay that pro-Palestinian demonstrations went ahead on Thursday evening after the terror attack that took two lives outside a synagogue in Manchester.

The top security official also appealed to protesters to "reconsider" from plans to hold marches in the days ahead.

"I do think that carrying on in this fashion seems un-British, it feels wrong," she stated regarding protests planned for this weekend.

Protesters in downtown London demonstrating against the Israel's naval forces intercepting a flotilla transporting humanitarian assistance to the Gaza Strip had confrontations with law enforcement near Downing Street on Thursday night.

Substantial groups holding Palestinian flags and banners could be seen on Whitehall throughout the evening.

The police force stated that 40 people had been detained. A half-dozen of those arrested were arrested for attacks against law enforcement personnel.

"It's essential to establish separation between what is happening in the Middle Eastern region and what is happening at home," the home secretary remarked on a television interview on Friday.

"I would advise to people who are considering to join a demonstration is to just take a step back for a short while, and think about if you had suffered the loss of a family member to a terror attack in this nation," she continued.

There were "strong" measures to defend the right to demonstrate, she noted, but they could be superseded on the advice of the police.

"I can take my lead from the police, if they were to advise me there was an lack of capacity to handle and to police the protests, then there are powers that are at my disposal," she explained.

Jewish community leaders voice worries

The UK's senior rabbinical leader commented that many members of the Jewish population asked why protests in support of Palestinian advocacy groups had been allowed to take place.

The group was proscribed as a terror group in July. At various demonstrations following the ban, numerous individuals have been arrested for demonstrating backing for the group, which has won authorization to contest the ban.

"Some of them contain blatant antisemitism, clear backing for Hamas. Not everyone involved, however there is a significant amount of these elements, which undoubtedly represents risky to many within our community," the religious leader stated.

"There's no distinction between the words on our streets, the behavior of people in this manner, and what inevitably results, which was the recent violent act."

Additionally, he appealed to the administration "once more", to "assert authority on these protests, they are harmful."