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\"\"<\/a>British Jewish Leaders Outraged by London University Anti-Israel Protest Which Required Police Intervention<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

Rachel Frommer<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Attendees at last night\u2019s UCL Israel lecture. Photo: Twitter\/Israeli Embassy in UK<\/em><\/span>.<\/p>\n

Leaders of Britain\u2019s Jewish community expressed outrage on Friday after a lecture on Thursday night by a former IDF soldier at a London university was stormed by protesters, resulting in the arrival of the police.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Marie van der Zyl, vice president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, said in a statement, \u201cWe deplore the aggressive and intimidating protests which disrupted a student event in UCL (University College London)\u2026It is disgraceful that in a society which values free speech, students at a top UK university cannot host an open event without being harassed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Van Der Zyl also referred to the anti-Israel protesters \u2014 who trapped students and visitors inside a lecture hall during the talk by Israeli peace activist Hen Mazzig \u2014 as a \u201chate-filled mob supporting the worst kind of extremism in the Middle East,\u201d who \u201cserve only to bully and threaten.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Board said it will be taking its concerns to the government and called on UCL \u201cto initiate a strong disciplinary process against the perpetrators.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

That message was echoed by the Israeli Embassy in London, writing in a statement posted on Twitter: \u201cWe are concerned by the shameful violence recorded at last night\u2019s event at UCL aimed at preventing an Israeli speaker from engaging students. We are confident the university will be investigating those responsible.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Footage of the event, which was co-organized by UCL Friends of Israel and CAMERA on Campus, shows officers warning people not to leave the lecture room without police escort, as the environment outside was too hazardous. On the video, protesters are heard shouting slogans like, \u201cFrom the river to the sea Palestine will be free.\u201d As the audience was led out of the lecture hall, they were followed by chants of, \u201cShame! Shame! Shame!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Devora Khafi, a student at Queen Mary University London who attended the program, tweeted:<\/span><\/p>\n

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British Jewish Leaders Outraged by London University Anti-Israel Protest Which Required Police Intervention Rachel Frommer Attendees at last night\u2019s UCL Israel lecture. Photo: Twitter\/Israeli Embassy in UK. Leaders of Britain\u2019s Jewish community expressed outrage on Friday after a lecture on Thursday night by a former IDF soldier at a London university was stormed by protesters, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47749"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47749"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47787,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47749\/revisions\/47787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}