14 arrested as anti-Israel protesters rally outside of London synagogue during Israeli real estate event.By World Israel News StaffPolice arrested 14 people Sunday after anti-Israel protesters and pro-Israel counterprotesters clashed outside a north London synagogue hosting an Israeli real estate event that critics claimed promoted property in Israeli towns in Judea and Samaria.The “Great Israeli Real Estate Event” was held at Edgware United Synagogue, drawing hundreds of demonstrators to the surrounding streets.The Metropolitan Police said officers imposed conditions under the Public Order Act and deployed to prevent disruption and respond to offenses.Commander Adam Slonecki said police had coordinated with the venue and the Community Security Trust before the event.“We have liaised with the venue and the Community Security Trust and have deployed officers to prevent serious disruption and to deal with any offences, using the full range of powers available to us including imposing conditions under the Public Order Act,” Slonecki said.He said the location of the protest, in a Jewish area and outside a synagogue, shaped the policing operation.“We are mindful that Jewish communities are experiencing heightened fear and concern following two-and-a-half years of sustained protest and, in recent months, a series of arsons and other attacks,” Slonecki said.“There is a distinction between protesting in central London and protesting in the heart of communities where the potential to cause serious disruption and intimidation is greater and our policing plan reflects that.”Police initially reported 15 arrests but later corrected the number to 14.The arrests included five for violent disorder, one of which also involved an allegation of assaulting an emergency worker; six for Section 4A Public Order Act offenses, four of them allegedly racially or religiously aggravated; one for a Section 18 Public Order Act offense; one for assaulting an emergency worker; and one for common assault.The event had been opposed by anti-Israel groups and more than 100 lawmakers and peers, who argued that it appeared to market property connected to Israeli towns in Judea and Samaria.In a letter to Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper, 101 parliamentarians and members of the House of Lords urged ministers to stop the event, saying that allowing it to proceed would conflict with UK policy on settlement-related economic activity and with Britain’s obligations under international law.The controversy focused partly on earlier promotional material that critics said referred to Gush Etzion, a settlement bloc south of Jerusalem. The Guardian reported that references to Gush Etzion were later removed from the 2026 event page. Organizers denied that settlement properties were being offered at the London event.My Home in Israel, the organizer, said the allegations were false and that participating exhibitors were presenting projects inside Israel’s pre-1967 lines. A spokesperson previously called claims that land in Judea and Samaria would be sold “ridiculous” and “motivated by anti-Israeli and terrorist supporters.”Amnesty International UK condemned the event before it took place, calling it part of a series of roadshows “normalizing illegal settlements by marketing them alongside properties in mainstream Israeli cities.”Crisis response manager Kristyan Benedict said, “This isn’t a property fair. It’s apartheid and annexation with a sales pitch.”Jeanine Hourani, a representative of the Palestinian Youth Movement, said activists had tried to stop the event from going ahead.“Over the last three years, Israel has attempted to make genocide the new normal and people of conscience around the world refused,” Hourani said. “Today, they are trying to make the selling of our homeland normal, and so we must also refuse.”Jewish communal leaders sharply criticized the protest, saying the allegations against the event had not been substantiated and that demonstrating outside a synagogue amounted to intimidation.Adrian Cohen, acting president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, said the organizers had “publicly refuted claims that the event is marketing real estate over the Green Line.”“It is very disappointing that MPs and other public figures have not acknowledged this and instead inflamed tensions through partial and misleading commentary,” Cohen said. “Protesting at a synagogue based on false pretenses seems to be little more than an excuse to harass and intimidate members of the Jewish community.”The Standard reported that around 1,000 protesters and counterprotesters gathered near the synagogue. Some protesters held signs accusing Israel of selling “stolen Palestinian land,” while counterprotesters gathered in support of the event and the local Jewish community.The post Anti-Israel protesters clash with Jews outside London synagogue, 14 arrested appeared first on World Israel News.