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The Interior Minister expressed regret that Palestinian-supporting demonstrations continued on Thursday following the terrorist incident that took the lives of two men outside a Jewish place of worship in Manchester.
Britain's home secretary also urged demonstrators to "pause" from intentions to organize protests in the next few days.
"I believe that proceeding in this fashion seems contrary to British values, it feels misguided," she remarked concerning demonstrations scheduled for this week.
Protesters in central London demonstrating against the Israel's naval forces halting a flotilla transporting humanitarian assistance to the Gaza Strip clashed with law enforcement outside the Prime Minister's residence on Thursday night.
Large crowds carrying flags of Palestine and signs could be observed on Whitehall throughout the night.
London's police force announced that fourty individuals had been arrested. Six of those arrested were arrested for attacks against law enforcement personnel.
"It's essential to establish separation between events unfolding in the Middle East and what is happening at home," the home secretary told a television interview on Friday.
"I would advise to individuals who are planning to join a demonstration is to reconsider briefly for a short while, and imagine if you had lost a family member to a terror attack in this country," she continued.
There were "strong" measures to protect the right to demonstrate, she stated, but they could be set aside on the advice of the law enforcement.
"I can act based from the law enforcement, if they were to tell me there was an insufficient resources to respond and to control the protests, then there are powers that are available," she explained.
Community representatives express apprehensions
The UK's senior rabbinical leader stated that many people of the Jewish population wondered why protests in support of Palestinian causes had been permitted to take place.
The group was proscribed as a terror group in July. At multiple protests since then, hundreds have been detained for showing support for the group, which has won authorization to contest the ban.
"A portion of them contain explicit antisemitism, direct backing for the militant group. Not all participants, however there is so much of this, which certainly is risky to many within our community," the chief rabbi declared.
"It's impossible to disconnect the speech on our public spaces, the actions of people in this way, and what inevitably results, which was yesterday's violent act."
He also urged the administration "once more", to "get a grip on these demonstrations, they are dangerous."
