(Jewish News) The Metropolitan Police has confirmed a review will take place over a decision not to treat an imam’s public prayer to “curse the Jews” and “ruin their houses” as a crime.
Footage of the sermon, given by a preacher at an east London mosque, was aired on television as part of an investigation into antisemitic hate speech.
In response to the 2023 investigation the Met said that it had been decided, after consultation with the Crown Prosecution Service, that the cleric’s sermon, which contained the wording of an Islamic prayer, “did not meet the threshold of a crime.”
Defending the decision not to prosecute the imam, the Met told the JC newspaper “specialist officers worked closely with the Crown Prosecution Service to assess the video.”
