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Mayor calls Met Police apology for 'openly Jewish' comment 'insensitive and wrong' ahead of meeting

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Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has summoned the Metropolitan Police Commissioner to discuss 'community relations' after a row about the force’s handling of pro-Palestinian protests. Sir Mark Rowley will meet Mr Khan on Monday (April 22) after an outcry over an incident in which an antisemitism campaigner was threatened with arrest near a demonstration on April 13. The Commissioner is also expected to meet the Home Secretary, James Cleverly, in the coming days, and has come under pressure to resign after a series of criticisms of the Met’s approach to protests over the past six months. But Government sources have played down the possibility that Sir Mark could be sacked and he is understood to retain the confidence of the mayor. The most recent row followed publication of footage showing an officer describing Gideon Falter, chief executive of the Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA), as 'openly Jewish' and another saying he would be arrested if he did not leave the vicinit...