A pro-Palestinian protester who disrupted a university's Israel Society event has been found guilty of assault by beating.

Two Jewish students were subjected to a volley of abuse, including being called Nazis, as they held off a mob of demonstrators during the lecture at King's College London in January.

The talk by Ami Ayalon, a former head of Israel's Shin Bet security agency, was interrupted by activists banging on the windows, chanting, throwing chairs and setting off fire alarms.

Ivana Bevilaqua, 25, of Pentonville Road, north London, was convicted at Westminster Magistrates Court on Wednesday.

She was given a conditional discharge for 28 days and ordered to pay compensation of £100 to the victim, Esther Endfield, as well as court costs of £200, and a victim surcharge of £20.

Ms Endfield, who was president of King's Israel Society, told the JC at the time that she had been struck on the arm by a woman as she tried to film the scene on her mobile phone.

The Jewish Leadership Council said it welcomed Bevilaqua's guilty verdict.