Private video surfaces of the anti-Israel protest at the BBC Proms concert

A mem­ber of the audi­ence filmed the dis­turb­ances at Zubin Mehta’s 75th Birth­day Prom with the Israel Phil­har­monic, which led the BBC to take its live radio broad­cast off the air. The anti-Israel pro­test­ers dis­turbed the con­cert as sev­eral points dur­ing the evening.

In his excel­lent blog, Nor­man Lebrecht writes:

The clips remind me of the way the Nazis broke up leftwing polit­ical meet­ings in Wei­mar Germany.

And Igor Toronyi-Lalic for The Arts Desk comments,

They had a right to stand out­side and propag­ate their views. And they were gran­ted that right. But then they went bey­ond this right. They imposed their protest on us to the extent that we were restric­ted in our free­dom to do what we wanted. This is exactly the form of author­it­ari­an­ism that the PSC claim to be attempt­ing to end.

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