On Saturday, a Met Police spokesman mentioned: “Mr Kozbar is now not an adviser to the Met. The determination was taken to stop engagement with Mr Kozbar as an adviser after a social media put up from late January 2024 was dropped at our consideration and reviewed.
“The Met works with a variety of religion and group adviser teams, regionally and centrally. This very important work helps us enhance our response to the crime and anti-social behaviour points confronted by all communities throughout London.
“We are presently reviewing how we work with our community of advisory teams to make sure that, just like the Met, they’re dedicated to constructing a greater London that promotes mutual respect and inclusivity.”
The disclosure by the Met comes after Mr Kozbar shared a video on X final week that appeared to disseminate conspiracy theories about Israeli management of establishments together with the police.
The video by Lowkey, a rapper who has described Israel as a “racist endeavour”, claimed “Israeli intelligence companies” have been “taking control of key functions of our intelligence and police services”.
Last yr, an official evaluate of Prevent, the federal government’s counter-extremism programme, raised issues that the London department of the National Association of Muslim Police had praised Mr Kozbar regardless of proof that in 2015 he had “previously supported the founder … of Hamas”.
Hamas was proscribed as a terror group in its entirety six years later in 2021.
Mr Kozbar didn’t reply to questions on Saturday. He has previously claimed he was being subjected to “repeated attempts to smear me as I pursue work to foster better community relations”.
He has mentioned: “I condemn the targeting of all civilians, whoever they are. It is criminal to indiscriminately murder innocent men, women, and children.” He has mentioned he helps “the Palestinian people and their quest for freedom, as clearly expressed as a basic right within international law”.
Addressing his feedback in regards to the founder of Hamas, he mentioned: “I spoke on the extra-judicial assassination of a paraplegic man who was wheelchair-bound… my comments were made well before this organisation [Hamas] was proscribed.”
Attiq Malik, a hard-Left activist, led the London Muslim Communities Forum till November when the Met lower ties with him after The Telegraph revealed that he had been filmed chanting “from the river to the sea” and railing towards “global censorship by the Zionists”.
