A tiny band of young activists targeted Labour’s South London headquarters this afternoon, covering the exterior in red paint.
The new group, ‘Youth Demand’ painted the opposition’s building in an attempt to secure an arms embargo on Israel.
As well as the anti-Israeli message, they also said in a statement after the protest that they want to end fossil fuel drilling in Britain.
Youth Demand gathered at Victoria Embankment at midday, listening to speakers for an hour before a claimed 70 individuals marched towards Parliament Square.
Shortly after a small number of individuals with Palestinian flags were spotted in Parliament Square chanting about the Middle Eastern country.
The Met warned the young group that they would be arrested if they entered the road, however there were no arrests.
While the small number marched on Parliament Square, and even small cohort of three turned up at Labour’s Southwark HQ with paint-filled fire extinguishers, dousing the exterior in red paint.
The group said that the Met has now arrested 11 of their cohort.
Group member Chris Faulkner of Oxford University, said: “There has never been a safer time for Labour to be bold.
“Instead, they are behaving like the biggest cowards imaginable.
“Young people will not stand by and watch Kier Starmer allow mass murder by selling weapons to Israel and allowing the development of new oil and gas.
“Over 30,000 people have been killed in Gaza and the breakdown of our climate will kill hundreds of millions more in the coming decades.
“As long as the upcoming government is threatening to continue genocide, coordinated civil resistance is our only option. Radical change has to come from young people.”
Fellow activist, 19 year old Ella Taylor, said accused British politicians of being “complicit in genocide”.
The protest sparked criticism on social media, with accusations they are “middle class Tories attacking Labour on something Labour have no control over”.
Another observer said they should be made to “clean it up by hand”.
“Then make them clean up litter for every day they spent in private education.”
Barrister Rupert Myers said: “Doubtless entitled middle class poshos with nothing better to do during working hours on a Monday undertaking acts of criminal damage while making an utterly garbage political point.
“All this does is give some people on low incomes the rubbish, cold task of cleaning this off.”
Youth Demand is part of an ‘umbrella coalition’ of groups including Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion.
