Footage of Attiq Malik leading a ‘from the river to the sea’ chant at a pro-Palestine rally raised serious questions for the Met Police.
Mr Malik, who is chairman of the London Muslim Communities Forum, had helped shape police policy and procedure with Scotland Yard.
The Met Police has already come under pressure for its failure to crackdown on anti-Israel chants.
The Telegraph uncovered footage from 2021 which showed the police lawyer orchestrating a controversial Palestinian chant.
In the footage, Mr Malik holds a microphone and tells the crowd: “We go on BBC, ITV, do we see any of this? No we don’t. You watch Sky News, do we see this? No.”
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He continued: “Even on social media what we’re seeing is the posts are going up on Insta, LinkedIn, Facebook, they’re getting deleted.
“What’s going on is global censorship by the Zionists, global censorship to silence us.”
He then leads the pro-Palestine crowd in a ‘from the river to the sea’ chant.
The Metropolitan Police did not waste time in responding to the uncovered footage, saying that the chair of the London Muslim Communities Forum “has expressed views in a way which does not align to the Met’s values”.
A statement said that his remarks were “anti-Semitic and contrary with our values”.
They said that they “will be immediately ceasing our relationship with Mr Malik while we investigate”.
Several conservative figures voiced outrage at the footage of Mr Malik.
Nile Gardiner, a former aide to Margaret Thatcher, posted: “Unbelievable. The enemy within.”
Richard Tice, leader of Reform UK, added: “Met Police bosses even more hopeless and stupid than we feared.”
This follows footage from Saturday’s pro-Palestine protest in London, which saw activists on the London Underground demand “intifada” against Israel.
The ‘from the river to the sea’ has been a source of fierce debate in recent weeks.
Suella Braverman, who claims it calls for the destruction of Israel, said it is “a staple of anti-Semitic discourse”.
On Monday, the Labour Party suspended Andy McDonald for using the phrase in a speech at a pro-Palestinian rally.
However, other experts disagree with this interpretation, including Palestinian-American writer Yousef Munayyer, who said the slogan was a way to express a desire for a state in which “Palestinians can live in their homeland as free and equal citizens, neither dominated by others nor dominating them”.
