Mick Hartley

From the Telegraph – Police sacked hate crime adviser who warned force favoured Muslims over Jews:

The chairman of a policing scrutiny panel was sacked after she complained that officers were avoiding the “elephant in the room” of Islamist extremism in a meeting about an anti-Semitic terrorist attack.

After last October’s attack on a synagogue in Manchester, the woman accused West Yorkshire Police of trying to appease Muslims rather than focusing on the Jewish community.

She was told she was being removed as chairman of the Bradford Hate Crime Scrutiny Panel because of her “divisive and inflammatory” comments, which had prompted complaints from Muslim police officers taking part in the meeting.

It followed another incident in which she was accused of “hate speech” by members of the police force for defending the public’s right to criticise the Prophet Mohammed.

The woman, a retired academic in her 60s, told The Telegraph that the letter informing her of her removal from the security panel “sounded like a threat” because the senior officer who wrote it implied that complainants had been demanding her personal details and that consideration had been given to whether she had committed a hate crime.

She suggested the letter had been written “for the Muslim men who complained to get him to shut me up – and he did as they asked”.

Shades of the West Midlands Maccabi Tel Aviv farce – the police bowing before Muslim pressure.

And there’s history here:

West Yorkshire Police has faced previous accusations of imbalance in its policing of different communities.

In March 2021 a religious studies teacher at Batley Grammar School who showed a cartoon of Mohammed to his pupils was subjected to such severe threats that he and his family went into hiding, where they still remain.

A government-commissioned report into the affair found that the teacher had been “totally and utterly failed” by West Yorkshire Police, who did not treat him as a victim of crime…