"It wasn't just BDS It was a general feeling. The Underbelly [the venue which cancelled the run] really didn't do enough to help us and the police surely didn't do enough. We were really shocked they cancelled us.
"The message of this [International Shalom] festival is good. It shows that Israel is a multicultural place. So it's good that I came to fight against this fight against Israel, even only for a little bit.
"I came to stand against the ignorance that BDS represents and the festival is doing that and I am glad to be a part of it."
Incubator’s staging of the first of eight performances of The City: A Detective Hip Hop Opera was watched by an audience of 30 people at the Drummond Community High School.
Outside the venue, as police watched on, the protesters displayed a poster which read "Anti-Semitism is a crime, Anti-Zionism is a duty" and flew Palestinian flags.
Mike Napier, chair of the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign, addressed the crowd, accusing Israel of being an apartheid state and describing Zionism as “dirty”.
