Pro-Palestine protesters have been filmed “aggressively intimidating” attendees outside a Jewish community centre as Metropolitan Police officers were accused of “sitting in their cars”.
A group of anti-Israel demonstrators gathered outside West Hampstead’s JW3 community centre earlier today.
Tel Aviv-based newspaper Haaretz was hosting a conference at the JW3 in North London, with former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and ex-Palestinian Foreign Minister Dr Nasser Alkidwa in attendance.
The protest appeared to boil over after some activists were heard chanting: “Intifada revolution.”
Banners held aloft by protesters also included paint-stained hand prints to emulate blood marks.
In a video posted to social media, a microphone-wielding protester shouted: “We will continue to occupy these streets every day of the week, no matter how many police… until Zionism no longer exists in the Middle East, because Zionism is a racist ideology.”
In a statement, the Metropolitan Police said: “We are dealing with a protest outside a venue in Finchley Road NW3. Officers were quickly on scene and remain there.
“Conditions under section 14 of the Public Order Act have been imposed on those protesting. One person has been arrested for criminal damage.”