NAMP, which represents Muslims in the British police, has described Zionism as “one of the manifestations of anti-Muslim hatred”.

The National Association of Muslim Police (NAMP) has described the Israel Defense Forces as a “Zionist terrorist group” and defended Hamas against “unverified allegations of acts of violence”.

This appears in a policy paper on “confronting anti-Muslim hatred”, written by NAMP’s then Vice-President Khaldoun Kabbani and published on NAMP’s website last year, but not brought to public attention until now, writes Andrew Gilligan, Senior Fellow at Policy Exchange, in The Spectator.

In 2022, NAMP urged the Home Secretary and the police to stop using terms such as “Islamism”, “Islamist” and “jihadism”, despite the fact that Islamists accounted for three-quarters of MI5’s terrorism-related cases, wrote Spiked Online at the time.

This occurred at a time when as many as 63 per cent of British Muslims themselves were concerned about the threat from extremist Islamism, not far below the British average of 67 per cent.

Since 1999, 94 per cent of deaths resulting from terrorist attacks in the United Kingdom have been caused by Islamists.

Several people have accused NAMP of promoting sharia law.

In the wake of the Henry Nowak scandal, concerns are growing that the British police are being undermined from within by extremist identity politics and grievance politics. NAMP’s definition of “anti-Muslim hostility” is also generating fear and anger. But the so-called elites do not understand it.

Henry Nowak murder awakens Britain – but elites still don’t get it

NAMP has a formal national role within policing. The College of Policing, an “independent” organisation under the Home Office, praises NAMP as “an important part of policing” that plays “a crucial role in supporting our workforce”.

Together with NAMP, the authorities work on what they evidently regard as important policing matters, including prayer and Ramadan. The latter recommends that the police give Muslim suspects special treatment, such as ensuring that “prayer and fasting times should be taken into consideration when planning searches of Muslim homes”.

NAMP also collaborates with the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC), conducts workshops with it, and has requested that the term “Islamist terrorism” be abolished because “police use of it contributes to faith hate crime”.

In a document, NAMP specifically defends the terrorist organisation Hamas against “alarming and unverified stories of acts of violence” committed by Muslims on and after 7 October 2023, “including allegations of beheadings and abuse. These reports have significantly contributed to increasing hatred of Islam.”

NAMP produced a report stating that only one Israeli child was killed in the terrorist attack of 7 October.

Even Amnesty International concluded that at least 36 Israeli children were killed in the Hamas-led attacks, together with 659 adult civilians, many of them scarcely more than children themselves. These figures are not mentioned when NAMP attacks the media for “falsely insinuating that [the Palestinians] commit atrocities against innocent people.”

NAMP also accuses “Zionists” of “abusing the Holocaust” in the Israel–Palestine conflict. Yet in reality it is NAMP itself that engages in Holocaust abuse, by writing:

“In the tragic history of Auschwitz, the Nazis’ process of dehumanising the Jewish people highlights a broader mechanism of oppression, whereby dominant groups suppress empathy through propaganda and indoctrination in order to facilitate atrocity.

This mechanism is not confined to the past, but is observed in contemporary conflicts, such as the situation between the Israeli government and military and the Palestinians.”

British police officers are being distracted from their core task, which ought to be maintaining public safety, preventing crime and apprehending criminals, argues David Spencer of Policy Exchange. Organisations such as NAMP are a principal cause of this distraction.

This is far from the first controversy to surround NAMP. As Spencer demonstrates, NAMP has spent years lobbying for partisan changes to police and government policy in a manner that can only undermine confidence in police impartiality.

The Shawcross Review of 2023 found that leading figures within NAMP and its affiliated police forces had promoted a number of troubling views or associations and shared conspiracy theories, antisemitic hate material and calls for the destruction of Israel. Why is such an organisation permitted to be anywhere near the police, asks Gilligan.

If activist corruption within the police is allowed to continue as it is now, and spreads further throughout the police service, it risks becoming as damaging to public confidence, as demoralising for ordinary police officers and as beneficial to criminals as the direct financial corruption that afflicted certain police forces in the 1970s, Gilligan concludes.

The situation within British policing requires a profound and far-reaching reset, he believes.

Part of this must be to banish, or better still, ban NAMP and other similar staff networks.