Is "openly Jewish" a hate crime under the April Fools Scottish hate crime law?

Would the officer done that to a black person if a far right match was happening....the not the nine o clock news sketch instantly sprang to mind.

@IwantToRetire

In France you aren't allowed to wear anything that is seen as religious, ie women not wearing the veil, although have no idea if this means that in France Jewish men cant wear a skull cap in public

That's not quite correct. There isn't a blanket national ban here on wearing any clothing that is seen as religious.

There is however a national ban on wearing obvious religious symbols in the public (i.e. state) schools and as you say full face veils.

I've seen Kippah's worn locally (large Jewish population in the city up the road).

Are you saying the gentleman knew the police would react that way?
What do you mean by this post?

I think the whole thing is awful. He just wanted to go about his business in London.

Would you care to explain how that would work?

Seems like a setup to manufacture sympathy

Should have added at the end of my post, which I know is long, but the stupidity of what this individual police man did is that many people who are "openly Jewish" participate in the "pro Palestinian" marches.

Following his logic he should have asked all of them to leave the march!

So much of what goes wrong today is about people at the very end of a long path of decision making being left to implement something they have neither the skill, nor the relevant information to act on.

This is madness

I think this makes the Met look really stupid, but have to say I think politcians have ramped up this situation, and doubt the Met or any police force, nor the ordinary person on the street would come out of this well in taking a decision on the spur of the moment.

I certainly think the Met should apologise, but I think we need to find a way to calm down the whole hate crime, dobbing people in culture that people like Braverman have provoked.

And as we know from how quick TRAs are to report someone to the police, there is no doubt this happens in other areas. For all we know someone approached the police man I said I feel threatened. (And doubt that met police are required to be educated about different religions, cultures and the importance of signifiers of that.)

In France you aren't allowed to wear anything that is seen as religious, ie women not wearing the veil, although have no idea if this means that in France Jewish men cant wear a skull cap in public.

The boroughs in the part of London I live in have had to resort to no public displays whether flags or posters reflecting support for either side in the Gaza conflict. (Not forgetting that not that long ago the English flag carried far more connotations than supporting a football team and some boroughs stopped them being displayed on housing estates they managed.)

In Northern Ireland they have the parades commission as a way of "safely" allowing parades in support of differnt communities to go ahead but only on agreed routes. (Isn't there something similar in Scotland in relation to football matches and sectarianism?)

Not meaning to downplay what happened but to expect the bobby on the beat to have the right response is in fact one of the things the Met did complain about. That the Government was franchising out to them decisions about how society should behave, but not having the intergrity to do it itself.

But as OP's question was about how the Scottish police would respond to this situation, I think the question should be asked of the politicians in Scotland who created the law. Not the muggins on the front line who have been left to as individuals interpret, or worse take advantage of to promote their own biases.

What the fuck have we come to?

Can you imagine how it would have gone down if an 'openly Muslim' man were told that he's breaching the peace and being antagonistic merely by his Muslim presence in the vicinity of a group of English Defence League marchers?

I have no words. The Met are not fit for purpose

I think if you reported this it would be referred to the Met, who would presumably then investigate themselves.

Absolutely shocking, though.

'The Met Police has apologised after an officer said an antisemitism charity leader looked "openly Jewish" as he was threatened with arrest for being near a pro-Palestine march.
Gideon Falter was wearing a kippah skull-cap when he was stopped in the Aldwych area of London on Saturday.
He was told by police his presence was causing a "breach of peace", in a video posted online.
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Another officer said: "You will be escorted out of this area so you can go about your business, go where you want freely or, if you choose to remain here, because you are causing a breach of peace with all these other people, you will be arrested."
The clip showed the officer saying that Mr Falter's presence was "antagonising".'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-68856360