Angry bystanders confronted a woman cutting down yellow ribbons for Israeli hostages from a fence in north London.
The young female, named in reports as artist Nadia Yahlom, was filmed with a pair of scissors which she uses to brazenly snip the memorial bands that the Jewish community have tied to railings.
Wearing a navy blue bomber jacket, and clutching a green, white, and purple striped tote bag under her arm, she declares that they are “condoning genocide”.
The symbol denotes the Bring Them Home campaign for the 251 hostages snatched and held captive in Gaza by Hamas terrorists after the group murdered 1,200 revellers in southern Isreal on October 7, 2023.
Furious locals approached her in Muswell Hill outside The Pocket Park on Fortis Green Road, just metres from a synagogue.
During the exchange, the woman carries on cutting the ribbons down as a female asks her for her name.
“No, you are not going to doing this,” she snaps, before adding: “Because I’m not committing a crime.”
When passers-by tell her she’s breaking the law, the woman tells them to “call the police and then let them know that you have an issue with this”.
A male voice is then heard calling her a “disgusting little human being”.
She replies: “I think condoning genocide is disgusting... yeah because that’s what this is” while holding on to the bunch of ribbons she removed.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: “ Officers have stepped up reassurance patrols in the Muswell Hill area, following reports that yellow ribbons were removed from fence poles.
At approximately 4.25pm on Monday, October 6, officers were made aware of a video circulating online which appears to show a woman removing the ribbons in Muswell Hill, Haringey.
“Officers attended the location and are reviewing the footage to determine whether any offences, including hate crime or criminal damage, have been committed.
“Enquiries remain ongoing.”
Ms Yahlom, firt named by the Daily Mail, is currently an Arts Council-funded PhD student at the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (Cream), at the University of Westminster, exploring the topic of haunting and the supernatural in Palestinian territories., the Telegraph reported.
According to Cream, Ms Yahlom is a "Palestinian-Jewish and British artist and visual anthropologist, looking at hauntedness, supernatural life and the bio/necropolitical between Palestine and the UKs."
"She has worked with Battersea Arts Centre, Rich Mix, ICA, Open City Docs, Tate Britain, Southbank Centre and many others.
"Nadia is the co-founder of Sarha Collective, an artists collective for experimental art forms from Palestine and the broader SWANA region."
On Monday, mourners at the funeral of one of the two men killed in the Manchester synagogue terror attack heard he was a “quiet man” who became a “hero”.
Adrian Daulby, 53, leaped from his seat to block the doors of the Jewish holy place as knife-wielding Jihad Al-Shamie, 35, tried to get in to attack worshippers, last Thursday morning.
Mr Daulby was killed along with Melvin Cravitz, 66, as the attack unfolded on Yom Kippur, the most holy day in the Jewish calendar with many worshippers inside Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Crumpsall.
Anyone with information on the Muswell Hill incident is urged to contact police via 101, quoting reference CAD 4948/06OCT25, or independent charity Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
