Police are investigating after posters describing Israel as a “racist endeavour” were plastered around London.
According to The Standard, “The posters are believed to have been installed in response to the Labour party’s decision to finally accept the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism on Tuesday night.”
Fly postered onto Westminster Bridge, Londonistan. Do not let your country fall as we have fallen. #MAGA pic.twitter.com/Vq55JiJXLc
— Katie Hopkins (@KTHopkins) September 5, 2018
Police in #Lambeth have received reports of fly posting in the #Waterloo area. Local officers are investigating. Offensive material will be removed.
— Met Contact Centre (@MetCC) September 5, 2018
Transport for London (TfL) denied authorising the adverts and said they would be removed. A spokesperson for TfL said, “It is fly posting and therefore an act of vandalism which we take extremely seriously.”
“We have instructed our contractors to remove any of these posters found on our network immediately.”
While it’s not clear who is responsible for the posters, a group called London Palestine Action claimed responsibility for posters of a similar style in November 2017 which read: “Decolonise Palestine.”
For the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, we made 100 posters reading 'Decolonise Palestine' #Balfour100 (thread, 1/x) pic.twitter.com/a9paRksVAZ
— LDNPalestineAction (@LondonPalestine) November 2, 2017
The same group also shared several photos of the latest posters.
We won’t stop speaking the truth: that Israel is, and has always been, a #racistendeavour pic.twitter.com/uLadKvelQR
— LDNPalestineAction (@LondonPalestine) September 5, 2018
Created by ethnic cleansing; maintained by ethnic exclusion. Israel is a #racistendeavour pic.twitter.com/xhJKL9jh9M
— LDNPalestineAction (@LondonPalestine) September 5, 2018
Rights denied based entirely on ethnicity. Israel is a #racistendeavour pic.twitter.com/iYqcsu6PyI
— LDNPalestineAction (@LondonPalestine) September 5, 2018
70 years of UK govt-approved dispossession, destruction and displacement. Israel is a #racistendeavour pic.twitter.com/M9BrlHy9wT
— LDNPalestineAction (@LondonPalestine) September 5, 2018
