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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Graham Spicer is a writer, director and photographer in Milan, blogging (under the name ‘Gramilano') about dance, opera, music and photography for people “who are a bit like me and like some of the things I like”. He was a regular columnist for Opera Now magazine and wrote for the BBC until transferring to Italy.

His scribblings have appeared in various publications from Woman's Weekly to Gay Times, and he wrote the ‘Danza in Italia' column for Dancing Times magazine.