London – The BBC says protesters have disrupted a performance by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in one of Britain’s most venerable concert series.
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Pro-Palestinian group The Palestine Solidarity Campaign had called for the BBC to cancel the concert and urged people to boycott the event in protest.
The orchestra was due to perform at London’s Royal Albert Hall on Thursday as part of BBC Proms, an annual summer concert series dating back to 1941.
Shouting and booing erupted just as conductor Zubin Mehta was about to lead the orchestra in Bruch’s violin concerto.
The BBC Proms apologized on Twitter, saying that the concert’s live radio broadcast was taken off the air “as a result of sustained audience disturbance.”
Who were the protestors? “palestinian” arabs, Israel-hating English gentiles or a bunch of Naturei Karta Klux Klan members?
“an annual summer concert series dating back to 1941.”
Completely wrong! The first Promenade Concert was given in the summer of 1895 at the (now defunct) Queens Hall which was bombed in 1941.
Since then the annual series of Promenade Concerts has been held at the Royal Albert Hall.
Clearly no one checked the story at the AP before it was put on the wire!
The ‘genteel’ Englishmen have gotten a free pass for way too long over their anti-Semitism. Mike Savage played a tape yesterday of Tony Blair’s sister in law who coverted to Islam, visciously attacking Israel in the most vile manner. We are on to you England.
The protesters were Arabs, British and foreign muslims and leftists anti-semites.
None of them were arrested.
The bbc are the ones wjo create all the anti israel atmosphere
England is not safe for Jews. Jews living there should get out while they can, before radical Islam and WASP anti-Semitism lead to violence.
Don’t people know you’re not allowed to criticize the State of Israel? Ir’s an issur deoraisa! You can criticize any country but never the Medina!!
#12 at least nobody over here ever tried to ban bris milah. Don’;t kids yourself, America is still golus.
England has been a sick country for a long time now. And, it’s getting sicker.