{"id":439704,"date":"2026-02-22T14:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T14:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/439704\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T14:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T14:04:10","slug":"pro-palestine-campaigners-harass-uk-jewish-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/439704\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Palestine campaigners harass UK Jewish residents"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pro-Palestinian activists<\/a> in the UK have been accused of intimidating Jewish residents during a door-to-door campaign calling for a boycott of Israeli goods, The Telegraph reported Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The activists, associated with the Apartheid-Free Zone (AFZ) movement, have been canvassing neighborhoods in Hackney, Bristol, Sheffield, and Brighton, urging residents to shun products made in Israel, the report said.<\/p>\n

The campaign, which has sparked significant concern, was criticized on Friday by Jewish groups and politicians, who described the actions as crossing a line of acceptable activism and urged police to take note of allegations of harassment and violence.<\/p>\n

The Community Security Trust (CST), a charity dedicated to protecting British Jews<\/a> from antisemitism, condemned the door-knocking efforts, stating that \u201cturning up uninvited at homes in an area with a large Jewish community to push a political agenda of this nature is intimidating and crosses a serious line.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The controversy deepened after an alleged incident in Sheffield, where a woman claimed to have been headbutted by an activist associated with the AFZ. The report said the woman was counter-protesting with her partner when she was allegedly assaulted.<\/p>\n

Politicians, including Labour MP Peter Kyle, have also raised concerns, with Kyle reporting the activities to local police for possible hate crime investigations.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy immediate thought was for the appalling scenario of a vulnerable Jewish resident being door-knocked by a gang of people wanting to harangue them,\u201d Kyle told Sky News.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Police said no arrests have been made.<\/p>\n

Despite these allegations, anti-Israel campaigners in Bristol<\/a> and Hackney were preparing for another round of protests over the weekend, while concerns about the safety of Jewish residents continue to grow.<\/p>\n

Hackney is home to one of the largest ultra-Orthodox (haredi) Jewish communities outside New York and Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pro-Palestinian activists in the UK have been accused of intimidating Jewish residents during a door-to-door campaign calling for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3854,59,57,58,96587,50,37118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-439704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-antisemitism","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-israel-boycott","tag-news","tag-pro-palestinian-groups","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}