As about 20 Muslims interrupted a vigil, some brought up an event from early Islamic history, when Muhammed's followers killed, injured, and displaced crowds of Jews from the town of Khaybar.
A vigil organized by pro-israel activists in London's Hyde Park, famous for being a free speech area, appeared to be severely interrupted and then dispersed altogether by men shouting anti-Jewish chants in Arabic, according to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
A few dozen people waving Israeli flags with candles in their hands gathered there ahead of the so-called Kristallnacht remembrance day, commemorating victims of the Nazi pogrom of 1938, as well as Jews killed and wounded across the Arab world.
Joseph Cohen, an israel advocacy Movement campaigner, was filming the event when 20 men chimed in shouting:
“Jews, remember Khaybar, the army of Muhammad is returning,” thereby referring to the 7th century massacre of Jews by Muslims, when the latter expelled Jews from the town of Khaybar, which lies in modern-day Saudi Arabia.
Some other Muslim activists voiced pro-Palestine chants, shoving Jewish activists to the side.
“The vigil went from bad to worse, they shouted us down, they would not allow us to remember our dead until we had to call off the vigil,” he added. The occurrence “goes to the heart of the matter we'd gathered to commemorate in the first place,” he also said.
A German woman witnessing the event even…
