By IRNA,
London : Following protests by students, Israeli deputy ambassador to the UK Thursday cancelled a visit to Manchester University in north-west England.
Talya Lador-Fresher was due to speak to the politics society at the university, but the Israeli Embassy cancelled the engagement after another student society Action Palestine campaigned against her visit.
The embassy had been concerned about 300 protesters storming the meeting with banners, according to the Jewish Chronicle. Politics Society president Jonathan Ridge, who was to chair the event, was also said to have his email account bombarded with protests.
The cancellation comes at a time when Israeli leaders have been cancelling visits to Britain for fear of being arrested on war crime charges.
Earlier Thursday, Israeli ambassador to Britain Ron Prosor was summoned to the Foreign Office in London over the use of forged UK passports by the alleged assassins of a Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai last month.
After the meeting, Foreign Secretary David Miliband said that Britain is determined to “get to the bottom of” how the passports of six British citizens living in Israel may have been used by Mossad to carry out the targeted killing of in January.
Miliband insisted the case was being taken “extremely seriously” but refused to reveal what was said in the 20-minute meeting. “It’s very very important that we don’t make accusations until we know that they’re well founded,” he said.