Embassy protester demanded ‘Jewish blood’

Police are hunting a masked extremist who was filmed chanting vile antisemitic slogans on a pro-Palestinian march
Demonstrators in central London last weekend
Demonstrators in central London last weekend

Scotland Yard is hunting a masked extremist who called for “Jewish blood” at a pro-Palestinian demonstration next to the Israeli embassy in west London.

The youth was filmed telling an Islamist mob: “We’ll find some Jews here ... We want the Zionists, we want their blood!”

The comments were made last weekend within earshot of two police officers, who appeared to do nothing to challenge the remarks. Minutes earlier, a firebrand speaker and YouTuber called Mohammed Hijab had whipped up the crowd against the “terrorist apartheid state of Israel” by declaring: “We love death.”

The incident follows claims of antisemitism at a rally in support of Gaza at which protesters carried placards referring to Hitler, the Nazis and the Holocaust. Jeremy Corbyn, the former Labour