Britain’s official body for Muslim police officers defended Hamas against “unverified stories” about the terror group’s violence.A policy paper published by the National Association of Muslim Police (NAMP) also labels the Israel Defence Forces a “Zionist terrorist group”.
It goes on to describe Zionism – the belief in a Jewish state in the Holy Land – as “one of the manifestations of anti-Muslim hatred”.NAMP maintains formal links with at least 16 of England and Wales’s 43 police forces.
While the College of Policing has described the organisation as “an important part of policing” that plays “a crucial role in supporting our workforce”.The paper has since been deleted from NAMP’s website.The policy paper defends Hamas against reports that “began circulating alarming and unverified stories about acts of violence by Hamas, including claims of beheadings and assaults”.”These reports have significantly contributed to increasing hatred towards Islam,” it warns.Hamas remains a proscribed terror organisation in Britain.
The NAMP defended Hamas against ‘unverified stories’ about the terror group’s violence | REUTERS
The document also claims that “reports from Israeli and Western media initially claimed that Hamas killed 120 children”.”However, these reports have been challenged by more recent disclosures indicating that not a single Israeli infant was a casualty during the said attacks,” it claims.The UN acknowledges that at least 29 children were killed during Hamas’s massacre on October 7, 2023.Even Amnesty International documented 36 child deaths.The document lists “Zionist terrorist groups, including the IDF” and states that “Zionism represents one of the manifestations of anti-Muslim hatred, stripping Muslims of their humanity”.
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It repeatedly characterises Israeli military operations in Gaza as genocide, a position that flies in the face of the British, American, French and German Governments’ stance.The paper also draws comparisons between Gaza and the Holocaust.It states: “In the tragic history of Auschwitz, the process of dehumanisation by the Nazis towards the Jewish people highlights a broader mechanism of oppression, where dominant groups suppress empathy through propaganda and indoctrination to facilitate cruelty.”The document continues: “This mechanism is not confined to the past but is observed in contemporary conflicts, such as the situation between the Israeli government and military and the Palestinians.”The Board of Deputies of British Jews condemned the document as “full of falsehoods, including about Jewish identity and history and about the nature of anti-Semitism”.
PICTURED: Palestinians go food shopping during Eid in the Gaza Strip. The paper draws comparisons between Gaza and the Holocaust, where six million Jews were slaughtered | GETTY
It continued: “If this is being circulated among officers, it poses a direct challenge to the integrity of policing.”The Campaign Against Antisemitism has now written to Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood demanding an investigation into those responsible.Stephen Silverman, the CAA’s director of investigations, described the document as “extremist” and said anyone linked to it was “unfit” to serve in the police.A Jewish Leadership Council spokesman said the paper “engages in deeply troubling Holocaust inversion and denial of some of the worst atrocities carried out by Hamas on October 7.”GB News has approached NAMP for comment.