Masked protesters halt campus event featuring Israeli speaker

A mob of masked protestors stormed an event featuring an Israeli speaker at King’s College London (KCL), reportedly throwing punches and letting off smoke bombs.

Israeli Yaron Brook, the chairman of the board of the right-wing Ayn Rand Institute, was speaking at a KCL Libertarian Society event with Carl Benjamin, a controversial YouTube personality known as Sargon of Akkad.

Footage taken shows a group of masked protestors storming the lecture theatre before they and students clash on stage. KCL confirmed police officers attended.

One of the protesters can be seen carrying an Antifa flag – from the self-proclaimed “left-wing anti-fascist” group – while another was struck in the face.

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