Overview

• Hundreds of students demonstrated at King’s College London, the LSE, UCL, Sheffield, Edinburgh and Strathclyde despite appeals to postpone following the Manchester synagogue killings.
• Prime Minister Keir Starmer called the anniversary rallies “un-British,” arguing that the right to protest does not make the timing appropriate.
• Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson wrote to universities stressing the safety of Jewish students, and Universities UK reminded participants that supporting a proscribed group is a criminal offense.
• Reporters documented militant-linked chants at some events, including “Long live the intifada,” “From the river to the sea,” and references to the “Al-Aqsa flood.”
• Incidents included a reported confrontation with a counter-protester at UCL and a later blockade of London’s Tower Bridge before a static protest near Downing Street.