A Finchley-born academic has complained that not all of Britain's Jews are having their views on the Middle East represented.

Dr Brian Klug told the British Friends of Peace Now symposium at the Sternberg Centre in East End Road, Finchley, on Sunday (June 1), that there was a myth of a united, monolithic, Jewish community' in Britain.

He criticised the Solidarity with Israel rally at Trafalgar Square on May 6, which the British Friends of Peace Now did not attend because it was refused permission to bring any banners, placards, or have a speaker representing its views.

"It was a peace rally, note," he said. "But the official theme was not, Yes to peace, no to terror'. It was, Get out of the territories for the sake of Israel'.

"Whatever you think about that message, you know where you stand with it.

"And because they took a clear stand, the demonstrators drew clear opposition."

Dr Klug, who grew up in Chessington Avenue, Finchley, is now a research fellow at Oxford University and an associate professor of philosophy at St Xavier University, Chicago.