Campaign Against Antisemitism Calls Off March Following Threats

Published on April 26, 2024

The Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) has cancelled its “Walk Together” march through London on Saturday, citing threats and security concerns. The march was set to take place through central London and would have coincided with a demonstration by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), but was cancelled on Friday after the CAA received “numerous threats” and its monitoring identified “hostile actors” that posed a risk to the safety of Jewish people attending. The CAA said it expected the “Walk Together” march would have drawn attendance in the thousands, but explained that owing to the high numbers “intending to join and then walk where they please—something that we used to take for granted in London as Jewish people without having to discuss with police ahead of time—we still do not have confidence that people would be safe.”...