The demonstrators marched through central London as part of an international day of action against Israel's military engagement with Hamas in Gaza. The Jewish state started its military campaign after Hamas terrorists launched a surprise attack on October 7, slaughtering 1,200 people and abducting 240 more.

"I dare you to look into the eyes of a Gazan child and tell him you tried your best," he said to the crowd. "Our day will come. But we must not be complacent. Our day will come. But we must normalize massacres as a status quo."

However, el-Kurd received extreme backlash on social media, insisted that he would "never say that," and pushed back against claims that he called for massacres despite video evidence.

"I was clearly saying we shouldn't be complacent, we shouldn't normalize massacres," he wrote. "Willfully distorting my words is an indication of your own bankruptcy. I'm allowed to misspeak. Also: idagf. Call the police! Write a Yelp review!"

El-Kurd also called for an end to Zionism, saying: "Zionism is apartheid, it’s genocide, it’s murder, it’s a racist ideology rooted in settler expansion and racial domination, and we must root it out of the world."

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