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Tuesday, March 31, 2026
Anti-Israel protests in London draw ire a week after ambulance arson
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleZev Stub is the Times of Israel's Diaspora Affairs correspondent.
Anti-Israel demonstrations were held yesterday in the Hendon neighborhood of London, a week after four ambulances belonging to Jewish rescue service Hatzola were destroyed in an arson attack in nearby Golders Green.
Several dozen protesters accused Israel of genocide and shouted that the “State of Israel has to go.” Police dispatched forces to prevent disorder, but no arrests were made as officers escorted protesters away from the demonstration.
Jewish organizations condemned the demonstration, with the National Jewish Assembly saying it “achieves nothing but inflaming tensions and intimidating residents.”
In a post on X, MP David Pinto-Duschinsky, a Labour politician who represents Hendon, calls the protests “utterly appalling, completely unacceptable and clearly antisemitic.”
“At a time when the community is already frightened, they have sought to make things worse,” Pinto-Duschinsky writes.
Hendon now.
Stop turning up to Jewish areas to try to harass and intimidate us.
It's not pro-Palestinian. It's anti-Jewish. pic.twitter.com/ZjuLVMwYkx— Stop The Hate UK (@StopTheHate_UK) March 30, 2026
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