Pro-Palestinian activists sparked outrage last night after placing posters calling Israel a ‘racist endeavour’ at bus stops across London.

Far-left campaign group London Palestine Action is believed to have flyposted the anti-Israel signs in at least four locations in the capital, including bus stops in Westminster, Bloomsbury and Waterloo.

The poster, which has a white background with red and green letters in capitals, says: ‘ISRAEL IS A RACIST ENDEAVOUR’.

Far-left campaign group London Palestine Action is believed to have flyposted the anti-Israel signs in at least four locations in the capital, including bus stops in Westminster, Bloomsbury and Waterloo



Transport for London (TfL) said the posters were ‘absolutely not authorised’ and have ordered their contractors to remove them.

The anti-Israel messages are thought to have been installed in reaction to the Labour party’s decision to accept the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism on Tuesday night.

Several Londoners walking past one of the posters on a bus stop on Westminster Bridge said they found it ‘disturbing’ and ‘anti-Semitic’.

One passer-by, who gave his name as Jonathan, said: ‘I walk across Wesminster Bridge on my way in and out of work so it’s disturbing to see.

‘Its come across anti-Semitic to me and I’m sure Jewish people will feel saddened about it.’

A TfL spokesperson said: ‘These adverts are absolutely not authorised by TfL or our advertising partner JCDecaux.

‘It is fly posting and therefore an act of vandalism which we take extremely seriously.

‘We have instructed our contractors to remove any of these posters found on our network immediately.’

London Palestine Action posted pictures of the anti-Israel signs on social media.

One Twitter caption said: ‘Created by ethnic cleansing; maintained by ethnic exclusion. Israel is a racist endeavour.’

Another said: ‘Rights denied based entirely on ethnicity. Israel is a #racistendeavour.’

The group describes itself as a ‘network of people in London taking creative action against Israeli apartheid’.

In 2016 they put up around 150 controversial pro-Palestinian posters on London Underground tubes which accused Israel of ‘apartheid’. At the time, TfL declared it an ‘act of vandalism’.

A spokesman for the London Jewish Forum said the previous posters were ‘awful smears that do nothing to contribute to peace and dialogue, placing significant strains on inter-community relations across London’.