Far-right activists have held a demonstration in the heart of London’s Jewish community.

The protest, apparently against the Jewish neighbourhood watch group Shomrim, took place in Golders Green, north-west London, on Shabbat. Nine demonstrators unfurled a banner proclaiming that the area “was London, not Tel Aviv”.

Police were in attendance. No arrests were made.

The Community Security Trust said, although the demonstration was small, many people would find it shocking that it took place in the capital’s Jewish heartland.

It was particularly sickening, CST said, that the activists had demonstrated at the area’s war memorial “for those who had died fighting against Hitler and Nazism”.

Last year, a planned far-right rally at the same location was moved by police to a site in central London, after concerns about communal safety.