A talk by anti-Israel activist Jackie Walker in a church hall was called off on Monday following an intervention by the Bishop of Edinburgh.
Ms Walker, who is facing expulsion from the Labour Party over comments about Holocaust Memorial Day and antisemitism, had been scheduled to speak at a Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign event near to the city's castle.
But Episcopalian Bishop John Armes emailed the group to say he was cancelling the event, at St Columbia's hall, after gauging "wider implications" of staging a talk by the controversial activist.
Ms Walker, who once questioned the need for security at Jewish schools, later gave a speech outside the church in which she stated: "Let me reiterate, opposition to a Jewish state is and remains a legitimate honourable political position."
