An angry mob that targeted Israel's ambassador at the London School of Economics racially harassed and threatened students who hosted her, witnesses claim.
Pro-Palestine protesters were accused of hunting down leaders of LSESU Debate Society after they held a talk with Tzipi Hotovely in Holborn on Tuesday.
A bystander revealed last night how the thugs followed the event organisers and said they would attack them - yelling: 'I will f*** you up p****holes'.
It comes after the group of brazen demonstrators claimed they were the victims and alleged it was the police who 'incited violence'.
LSE For Palestine hit out at the Met for protecting Ms Hotovely and also attacked the university for allowing law enforcement on campus to steward the mob.
Last night the diplomat revealed the extent of the rage directed at her by the yobs, saying they tried to silence her by 'shouting and screaming' but will not succeed.
She was harassed by the angry students after delivering a lecture to the student union debating society.
Beating drums and chanting, they booed her and shouted: 'Aren't you ashamed' as her bodyguards bundled her into a waiting Jaguar.
Before the event, a group called LSE Class War urged to storm the building and 'make her shake', adding: 'Whoever smashes the Ambassador car window gets pints.'
Pro-Palestine protesters were accused of hunting down leaders of LSESU Debate Society after they held a talk with Tzipi Hotovely in Holborn on Tuesday
A bystander revealed last night how they followed the event organisers and said they would attack them - yelling: 'I will f*** you up p****holes'
At one point a member of the ambassador's security detail was forced to restrain a protester who made is through the police line while the ambassador was bundled into her car
Ms Hotovely is pictured during the debate at London School of Economics - which the Embassy described as peaceful - ahead of the chaos when she left
It comes after the group of brazen demonstrators claimed they were the victims and alleged it was the police who 'incited violence'. Pictured: The diplomat at the event on Tuesday
A student revealed members of the mob had followed him and his friends from the debating society when they left.
He said: 'I stand in solidarity with the protests and the people of Palestine but I am embarrassed about the racial and violent harassment of the event organisers.
'At the end of the talk I waited for my friends to leave the premises so that I could walk with them.
'As they left they were met with chants of 'shame' and certain individuals called them ''war criminals''.'
He continued: 'More worryingly four to five individuals began to follow us as we walked down Lincoln park and these individuals in particular began to verbally harass the organisers by saying the ''Kashmiri people are ashamed of you'' and that ''you are war criminals''.
'One individual in particular began to physically threaten the organisers by saying ''I will f*** you up, p****holes'' and ''come on, fight me, p****holes''.'
He added: 'This is an unacceptable form of protest and physical and verbal harassment go against the guidelines set out by the organisers of the protest.'
The Kashmiris are a group of people that live mostly in the Kashmir Valley in the disputed part of India.
Shocking footage emerged on Tuesday showing Ms Hotovely being rushed into her car by bodyguards and raced away after protesters screamed and tried to grab her.
The 42-year-old carried flowers while thugs yelled 'aren't you ashamed' and branded her country a 'terrorist state' as they set upon her car at around 7.30pm.
Ms Hotovely, the Israeli ambassador (pictured), has branded hard-Left activists 'shameful' after they tried to intimidate her following a lecture at the London School of Economics
An Instagram handle called LSE Class War appeared to take credit for the chaos but calling for students to 'smash her car window' and 'storm the building'
Tzipi Hotovley is the Israeli Ambassador to the UK.
She is on the right wing of Israeli politics and supports expanding Israeli settlements on the West Bank as well as opposing Jewish-Muslim marriages.
The Orthodox Jew describes herself as a 'religious right-winger' and was born and raised in Rehovot, near Tel Aviv.
Pro-Palestinians and left-wing Israelis fiercely oppose her support for the expansion of Israeli settlements in Palestinian territory, rejection of a two-state Israeli-Palestinian peace deal and support for a 'greater Israel'.
She has said before: 'This land is ours. All of it is ours. We did not come here to apologise for that.'
Her family have roots in what was the ex-Soviet republic Georgia, with her parents Gabriel and Roziko Hotovely immigrating to Israel before she was born.
After leaving school Ms Hotovley did two years Sherut Leumi, which is what some religious women do instead of National Service in the army.
Ms Hotovely was a controversial choice as Israel's Ambassador to the UK, having been appointed by former PM Benjamin Netanyahu (pictured together) and a member of his Likud party
In 2008 she joined Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party and became a member of the Knesset.
Critics on the left opposed Ms Hotovely's appointment as Israel's Ambassador to the UK, after she was first appointed as settlements minister by former PM Benjamin Netanyahu and a member of his Likud party.
A petition was set up last year to ban her from becoming ambassador, which read: 'Hotovely has an appalling record of racist and inflammatory behavior from throughout her political career.
'As British Jews we are clear: Tzipi Hotovely's values and politics have no place in the UK. It is crucial that the UK government sends a message that her views are unacceptable, and rejects her nomination as ambassador.' Ms Hotovely was also deputy foreign minister from 2015 to 2020, a move panned by some for her views on Israel's settlement movement and rejection of the two-state solution.
Ms Hotovely is pictured centre at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester on October 5
She found herself in hot water in 2017 for suggesting American Jews lack patriotism because most 'don't have children in the US military'. She questioned whether 'people that never send their children to fight for their country' could understand the 'complexity' of the Middle East.
'Most of the Jews don't have children serving as soldiers, going to the Marines, going to Afghanistan or to Iraq,' she said on i24 TV news. 'They don't feel how it feels to be attacked by rockets, and I think part of it is to actually experience what Israel is dealing with on a daily basis,' said Ms Hotovely.
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But organisers remained unrepentant and last night doubled down on the aims of the hateful protest and blasted the police and the university.
LSE For Palestine, which has 853 followers on Instagram, claimed officers 'incited violence' against them during the event.
This is despite video footage showing demonstrators trying to force their way past the Met's line shielding Ms Hotovely from danger.
The statement claimed: 'Contrary to false reports, Hotovely did not ''flee'' the university; students maintained a peaceful protest throughout the evening and it was the police who incited violence.
'At the beginning of the protest we made our protest guidelines and safe space policy clear, stating that we would not tolerate speech, behaviour or displays that incited any sort of prejudice or discrimination.'
It also made another passing shot at LSE, saying: 'In light of the apartheid-free motion that was overwhelmingly passed by the LSE student body last summer and the recent protest, it is overwhelmingly evident that the LSESU only pays lip service to their commitments to anti-racism and democracy.'
The Met has been approached for comment.
When asked about the protest, one demonstrator told Iran state-affiliated media Press TV: 'The students at this university are deeply ashamed.
'This university has failed the recognise and represent the student body. If Palestinians are not recognised we will not stop debating.'
Another said: 'Someone like this person doesn't really deserve the right to speak. She's made comments dehumanising an entire people.
'If she can dehumanise people and refuse their right to speak, why should she have any...
'Her appointment as ambassador is evidence enough of the attitude of the current government of Israel and the current attitude of our own government.
'But we provide... training to Israel more effectively bomb a population that has already suffered enough.'
Mrs Hotovely, 42, was at the university on Tuesday for an event called Israel's Perspective: A New Era in the Middle East.
She told the Mail she spoke successfully for 90 minutes to a room of 50 students, with 100 more listening on Zoom.
She said LSE made sure her 'freedom of speech wouldn't be hurt' and she was
