Megan Howe – The Evening Standard Feb 2, 2026
A Metropolitan Police detective sergeant has been sacked after sharing social media posts about the war in Gaza, including content found to be antisemitic.
Rebecca Collens, who was attached to the Met’s Roads and Transport Policing Command, faced allegations of posting “overtly political” material about the Israel–Gaza conflict that was unbalanced, one-sided and antisemitic.
On one occasion, DS Collens reshared an image comparing what appeared to be victims in Gaza, labelled “Palestine 2024”, with victims from what appeared to be a Nazi concentration camp, labelled “Germany 1945”. The image was accompanied by the caption: “The world said never again and here we are again 79 years later,” Scotland Yard said.
Alongside the post, she commented: “A classic case of the abused becomes the abuser… no?”, the panel heard.
The panel said Ms Collens accepted that her use of the word “abused” referred to Jewish people rather than the state of Israel, which did not exist in 1945.
As a result, the post was found to fall within the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism.
A misconduct panel heard the case over two days on January 12 and 13.
The posts were collectively deemed “overtly political”, and the panel found they “demonstrated a lack of impartiality and presented a one-sided view of the Gaza conflict during a time of heightened public controversy” after the events of October 7 2023 which led to the war in Gaza.
Ms Collens shared the posts on a private Instagram account with more than 100 followers, the panel heard.
She was reported anonymously to the force’s Right Line whistleblowing service in May 2024.
On one occasion, she shared a post which stated: “Stop calling this a war. There is no parity of power. Israel is one of the most powerful, nuclear-armed militaries on earth, funded, equipped and backed unconditionally by the single most powerful, nuclear-armed military in the history of the world. This is genocide”, the Met said.
Another time, she shared a post which said: “Israel bombed the international airports of Aleppo and Damascus in Syria, forcing them out of service. Bombing civilian airports in Syria. Massacring entire families in Gaza. Dropping white phosphorus on Lebanon and Gaza. This is the Israel that Western media tells you is a ‘victim”‘, according to the force.
In another post she re-shared what appeared to be a graphic comparing the number of children killed per day in Auschwitz with the number of children killed per day in Gaza, the Met said.
She also shared a post criticising a potential ban or conditions on a march calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, adding her own comments “god forbid people protesting against war/war crimes/genocide for a ceasefire on a day where we remember the devastation of every day during a world war… make it make sense!”, the force said.
Ms Collens said that her intention was to highlight the “suffering and devastation in Gaza” and that she had felt “guilt, helplessness, heartbreak and pain” about what was happening.
She told the panel that she had no intention to “hurt anyone or be disrespectful of the Jewish faith”.
Regarding the post found by the panel to be antisemitic, the panel wrote: “Within the IHRA working definition there are contemporary examples of antisemitism in public life and found the following example to be relevant in relation to this one post: the drawing of comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.
“The panel concluded that on the balance of probabilities the post itself is antisemitic, whether or not the officer had appreciated at the time it would be considered so.”
Ms Collens said she felt “horrified about being called antisemitic; mortified and heartbroken”, the panel wrote.
Detective Chief Superintendent Donna Smith said: “DS Collens’ conduct was wholly unacceptable and I find it inconceivable that she did not think these posts could be seen as offensive or overtly political.
“There is no room in the organisation for anyone who thinks this type of behaviour is appropriate. We are building a culture where anyone can feel welcome in the Met and those who undermine this are not suitable to serve.”
So, this person is antishitmetic but believes in the holohoax? Seems a bit fishy to me…
Added to that, it “works” for “the crown” and spends/spent its time abusing the white british for its jewish masters. Seems even fishier…
> We are building a culture where anyone can feel welcome in the Met and those who undermine this are not suitable to serve
“anyone” = anyone who follows orders
“serve” = serve the jews
Heaven help anyone who points out the “met” is supposed to serve the british people. Heaven help anyone who believes they do.
The “met” is full of wogs and white woke and serves israhell.
antisemitic means anti jew
after they are committing genocide in the middle east
who isnt ?
everyone should be anti jew
look what they have done to the uk after waterloo ?
those pics on youtube of mandleson wearing a nappy disgusted me
i used to care for abused boys for social services
whose anal sphincter muscles were shot and had to wear nappies for life
i was told that cliff richard had to wear a colostomy bag ager the krays forced him to go with lord boothby
WHICH DEATH CULT
WILL RISE TO RULE,
THE TALMUD, ISLAM,
OR ONE MORE CRUEL,
TOO OFTEN IN
THESE TIMES,
RELIGION HAS
BROUGHT FOURTH
IMPIETY AND CRIMES
lucretius, 99bc—55bc
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THEY PUT WORDS
INTO THE MOUTH
OF GOD,
AND CONTROL YOUR
SPEECH THINK THAT
NOT ODD.
The Birmingham and Black Country BBC News has been constantly on the back of the police officer who banned the Israeli football fans from Villa Park. Anyone would think there was some kind of “lobby” at work…
The thought police is at it again. Thou shall not think! Just “serve” and if that does not work out get one of Musk’s soon to be mandatory neuro-links for dissidents.
The Khazars committing genocide in Gaza aren’t Jews or of semitic origin. They are evil satanic scumbags committing crime for the evil Rothschilds Khazarian Mafia.
And there was no holocaust, only a hoax to keep the cash flow poring in.
Jews dominate, as they did in Nazi Germany, but few know this second part
This guy should be sacked! The Gaza holocaust is orders of magnitude worse than the Jew’s silly pity party over being stored away in nice safe camps, and required to work at nice safe jobs to provide for their upkeep!
This sacked Met detective should have, as befits a detective, investigated better about nazis.
But even so, he has denounced injustice and genocide even if that meant hard times for him.
In spite of his errors he showed more honesty and more balls than all the “AA”s, Mr.Crowleys and other cowards and trash-worshippers that only psyop you with bs.
Shame on these fakers!
“Manchester City have been “let down” by manager Pep Guardiola “repeatedly straying into commentary on international affairs”, Jewish community leaders say.
The Jewish Representative Council of Greater Manchester & Region has “implored” Guardiola to be “more careful with his language” at a time when anti-Semitism is rising.
The group issued a statement after the Manchester City manager said he wanted to use his position to “speak up”, and talked about the “hurt” he feels for victims of global conflict.
Guardiola also gave a speech in support of Palestinian children at a charity event in his home city, Barcelona, last week.
However, he has been advised to “focus on football” by the organisation.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cyv5d7q34e1o