Pro-Palestine protesters disrupt City University London talk by lawyer linked to Gaza hostages
Pro-Palestine protesters stormed a City University London lecture by a lawyer who represented British people connected to hostages taken by Hamas in Gaza, demanding Palestinian prisoner releases.
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A talk at City University London by a lawyer who represented British people connected to hostages taken by Hamas in Gaza was disrupted by pro-Palestine student protesters, according to footage aired by a news programme.
The protesters stormed into the lecture and challenged the speaker. In the clip, they referred to "Zionist hostages" and demanded the release of Palestinian prisoners. One voice in the recording said: "See these hostages that were killed. 150 plus people." Another said: "I'm not talking about the prisoners, the 10,000 prisoners that were held." The disruption drew shouts including "Don't touch her" and "You can't lift your arms", with someone describing the scene as "awful".
The presenter said the incident had crossed the line of what should count as a fair protest, whatever people think of the wider issue. The presenter argued that storming a talk was not a legitimate or effective form of protest, and described it as intimidating, scary and not the way things are done in Britain. The presenter also noted that City University London produces many journalism graduates each year.
After playing the footage, the presenter called for undercover operations and filming of groups involved in such actions, asking why more was not being done to monitor them. No response from City University London, the speaker, or the protesters was included in the coverage.
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| A GB News presenter called for undercover filming of groups involved in disruptions such as the City University London talk. | |
| Student protesters disrupted a City University London talk by a lawyer representing British people linked to hostages in Gaza, referring to Zionist hostages and demanding the release of Palestinian prisoners. | |
Channel Perspectives
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GB News treated the disruption as a clear case of protest crossing into intimidation and disorder. The segment leaned heavily on the presenter's condemnation, framed the incident as un-British, and widened out to a call for undercover policing or filming of activist groups. It gave no airtime to the protesters, the university, or the lawyer beyond a brief description of the talk.
- “Student protesters at City University of London, which by the way, is a large producer of journalism graduates every single year, worth noting.”
- “We've crossed the line of what I would consider to be a fair protest, regardless of what one thinks of the issue, right?”
- “These people, these individuals that go around behaving like this all the time, let's have some undercover filming of this lot.”
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