‘Should not be tolerated': Anti-Israel protestors ‘instilling fear' into Jewish community
'I think a lot of these police would love to get in there and break these things up,' Mr Ashby told Sky News host Paul Murray.
'This sort of behaviour should not be tolerated, because what it's doing is it's just instilling fear, not just in the Jewish community, but for anyone that may have been at that restaurant.
'How much further will some of these protestors go?'
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