Jewish students at the London School of Economics and members of the university’s Palestinian Society clashed during an Israel Apartheid Week protest.
The Palestinian Society protesters created a mock checkpoint Feb. 20 outside a campus building, stopping students by asking for identification and reportedly harassing Jewish students.
Counter-protesters, said to be members of the Students’ Union Jewish Society, threw water balloons at the Palestinian Society protesters, spurring a fight that injured at least one student, the Jewish Chronicle reported. University security had to separate the protesters.
“The Union of Jewish Students has consistently opposed these fake security checkpoints as being intimidating against Jewish students,” a union spokesman told the Jewish Chronicle.
The school’s Students’ Union said in a statement that it supports the right to peaceful protest but condemned the violence. The union said it would undertake an investigation of the incident in conjunction with the school. — jta