Pro-Palestine demonstrators have organised a protest in London's Hatton Garden as part of a campaign to boycott Israeli diamonds, which they claim "fund war crimes".
Diamond traders have raised concerns about the plans by the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign, which call on demonstrators to gather in August to picket the famous London street lined with jewellery shops.
They claim that the Israeli diamond industry is generating revenue for Israel's military, and that as one of the five major hubs of the global diamond industry, Hatton Garden should be targeted to "educate shoppers and jewellers about the trade in diamonds from Israel that fund war crimes and crimes against humanity".
But jeweller Jeremy Hartstone, who has five shops in Hatton Garden, said: "I'm very worried that anarchists will try to latch on to anything, especially after what happened at the Ritz [during the demonstrations against government cuts]. I have been distributing the details around other shops and have asked people to contact the council to see if this can be stopped."
