{"id":101832,"date":"2023-12-13T02:29:15","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T02:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebritycovernews.com\/?p=101832"},"modified":"2023-12-13T02:29:15","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T02:29:15","slug":"islamist-threat-to-britain-at-an-unprecedented-level-amid-gaza-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebritycovernews.com\/world-news\/islamist-threat-to-britain-at-an-unprecedented-level-amid-gaza-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Islamist threat to Britain at an &apos;unprecedented level&apos; amid Gaza war"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1> Islamist threat to Britain is at an &#8216;unprecedented level&#8217; amid Gaza war, with calls by the public to anti-terrorism hotline DOUBLING amid fears Hamas propaganda could &#8216;energise&#8217; jihadis, Met chief warns<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Matt Jukes warned conflict has heightened the danger of an attack on London\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Britain is facing &#8216;unprecedented levels&#8217; of counter-terrorism arrests as people are being &#8216;energised&#8217; towards extremism amid the war in\u00a0Gaza.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Commissioner Matt Jukes, who leads national counter-terrorism policing, has warned Hamas&#8217; atrocities on October 7 have heightened the danger of an attack on London.<\/p>\n<p>He told MPs\u00a0that in the last two months there has been more terrorism arrests than in the whole of last year, highlighting a &#8216;concerning environment where people are energised towards potentially support for extremist ideologies&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Calls by the public to the anti-terrorism hotline have doubled, while t<span>here has also been a 12-fold increase in referrals about extremism online and a 25 per cent increase in counter-terror intelligence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>MPs were warned that counter-terrorism policing resources are under enormous pressure as they are dealing with the &#8216;biggest convergence of threats&#8217; since the London Olympics\u00a0in 2012.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/13\/00\/78892679-12857225-image-a-68_1702427250952.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Assistant Commissioner Matt Jukes (pictured) has warned Hamas &#8216; atrocities on October 7 have heightened the danger of an attack on London\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/13\/00\/78892677-12857225-image-a-70_1702427264920.jpg\" height=\"416\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>People search through the rubble of damaged buildings following an Israeli air strike on Palestinian houses, amid the conflict between Israel and Hamas<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/13\/00\/78892675-12857225-image-a-69_1702427262941.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Smoke rises over Gaza,\u00a0as seen from southern Israel, amid the ongoing conflict<\/p>\n<p>Across England and Wales, there has been a 680 per cent increase in anti-Semitic crimes and 140 per cent in reported Islamophobic crimes, while there have been 500 investigations for alleged breach of terrorism legislation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>READ MORE:\u00a0Israeli Defence Minister blasts &#8216;Hamas propaganda&#8217; at universities and reveals Israel has helped thwart HUNDREDS of terror attacks in Britain and Europe in &#8216;recent years&#8217;<\/h3>\n<p>The Met has devoted 28,000 officer shifts to policing protests since October, at a cost of \u00a317million in London alone.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nationally, officers have had to tackle 900 protests in the last two months.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the shocking statistics, Mr Jukes told the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee: &#8216;There are states or parts of states that are fuelling some of the division, the polarisation we have seen, particularly with communications online.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He said he is also concerned about ongoing intimidation of British MPs and &#8216;antidemocratic&#8217; protests outside their homes.<\/p>\n<p>Since September the number of crimes related to the targeting of MPs has doubled as politicians have been attacked for their views on the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;This is an exceptional period where we have a sense of counter-terrorism risk which is immediate,&#8217; Mr Jukes told MPs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We have seen in the course of the protests a whole spectrum of behaviour, the extreme of which crosses over into terrorism legislation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The arrests for those offences that relate to supporting or glorifying terrorism are in unprecedented numbers when compared to the last decade and are part of a concerning environment where people are energised towards potentially support for extremist ideologies.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/13\/00\/78787723-12857225-Thousands_of_protesters_marched_from_Bank_Junction_to_Westminste-a-73_1702428484356.jpg\" height=\"422\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Thousands of protesters marched from Bank Junction to Westminster on Saturday, with many holding signs with the words &#8216;Free Palestine&#8217; and &#8216;End the siege&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/13\/00\/78791413-12857225-A_woman_holding_a_placard_accusing_Prime_Minister_Rishi_Sunak_an-a-74_1702428498039.jpg\" height=\"715\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>A woman holding a placard accusing Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Labour Leader Keir Starmer of &#8216;supporting genocide&#8217; is pictured during a march through Westminster<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/13\/00\/77954207-12857225-On_Thursday_the_MP_s_office_was_covered_with_red_paint_and_poste-a-72_1702428283922.jpg\" height=\"409\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Shadow Welsh secretary Jo Stevens&#8217; office in Cardiff was covered with red paint and posters accusing her of having &#8216;blood&#8217; on her hands after she\u00a0failed to vote for a ceasefire in Gaza in November\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8216;The threat is going to manifest at two speeds. We have got the immediate of people being energised or galvanised by the amount of hateful material that is being circulated. There is a real risk as we saw in Paris recently of an individual being energised by these events.<\/p>\n<h3>READ MORE:\u00a0How worrying numbers of young people are falling for Hamas&#8217;s dirty tricks in the propaganda war, writes AMI H ORKABY\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>&#8216;The FBI director talked last week about red lights blinking everywhere and I think that&#8217;s part of what we&#8217;re beginning to see &#8211; that increase in calls from the public, that increase in online traffic, and increasingly young people involved.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mr Jukes fears that graphic images from the conflict are being used by terror groups as a recruitment tool to lure in impressionable British teenagers.<\/p>\n<p>The Counter-Terrorism Internet Referral Unit has received 2,100 reports since the Hamas attack on October 7, the highest level of referrals the unit has ever received since it was set up in 2010 to remove online terrorist material.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mr Jukes&#8217; colleague, Met Assistant Commissioner Matt Twist, told the hearing: &#8216;What we are seeing in London is the biggest convergence of threats we have seen for a very long time with the impact of major global events being felt on the streets of London.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The scale of the policing challenge is enormous.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mr Twist added: &#8216;I worry about the impact of social media. A contingent of what we see is quite clearly put up to fuel division, to fuel polarisation and make things worse.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Later, the former Home Office extremism tsar Dame Sara Khan told the committee that Britain&#8217;s lax laws had left Hamas supporters free to glorify terrorism.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/13\/00\/77700935-12857225-Police_are_actively_seeking_two_men_pictured_wearing_alleged_Ham-a-71_1702428057810.jpg\" height=\"460\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Two men pictured wearing alleged Hamas-style headbands their balaclava and scarf-covered faces during a protest in London on November 11<\/p>\n<p>She said it was not illegal for extremists to celebrate the Hamas attacks on Israel as long as they avoided specifically encouraging a terrorist act and steered clear of directly supporting the proscribed organisation.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Khan, who is now an independent adviser on social cohesion to Michael Gove, called for new laws to tackle hateful extremism, saying it was &#8216;pretty shocking&#8217; 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