Justin Bieber was seen shouting at a group of bar mitzvah guests in Los Angeles, in a video shared to social media.

The guests, all boys wearing kippahs, can be seen surrounding the star as he shouts: “Is this funny to you? Is this funny to you guys?”

Eyewitnesses told TMZ the conflict began in a hotel lobby, where a bar mitzvah was taking place. Bieber, who arrived to pick up his pregnant wife, Hailey, asked the boys to leave. When they refused to leave him alone, the Sorry singer was unapologetic in angrily kicking them out.

Bieber is not Jewish  – in fact, his mother was initially reluctant to sign the singer up to his current record label, because of manager Scooter Braun’s Jewish faith. According to a 2010 New York Times piece, she recalls praying at the time: “God, you don’t want this Jewish kid to be Justin’s man, do you?”

It appears God did, as Bieber went on to have great success with Scooter Braun’s record label, even picking up a few Jewish traditions from his agent. Before Bieber goes on stage, he says the Shema, Scooter Braun said. “Justin heard me pray, he gets why I do it, and now he does the same”.

In 2011, after playing a concert in Tel Aviv, the singer returned home with a tattoo of the Hebrew word Yeshua, meaning Jesus.

Bieber was sued in 2015  after his neighbour accused the singer’s bodyguard of shouting antisemitic abuse at him.

So perhaps the bar mitzvah attendees were right to approach him in the lobby, instead of inviting the singer in for the seudat mitzvah.