A student leader at University College London told hundreds of protesters at a pro-Palestinian demonstration that “plotting” Zionists would be kicked out of the Middle East as students chanted the Hamas rallying cry “From the river to the sea”.

Saleem Nusseibeh, president of UCL’s Students for Justice in Palestine Society, talked at last Friday’s event about “Zionist manoeuvring and plotting” and said they would be “removed, their presence will be gone”.

The Hamas rallying cry is widely understood to call for the destruction of the state.

The JC has contacted UCL to see what action it plans to take about the rally.

Online footage shows Mr Nusseibeh at a discussion panel in December saying: “If the UN accepts that Zionism is racism and Israel is the manifestation of Zionism, that means Israel is a racist state.”