London police have arrested a man over posters depicting an armed Israeli settler jeering at a Palestinian woman in the occupied West Bank after a complaint into its allegedly antisemitic connotations.
The posters, which carried the caption “Labour’s monsters”, showed an armed man in military uniform taunting a Palestinian woman.
Italian photojournalist Pietro Masturzo took the photograph in the occupied Palestinian village of Idhna, west of Hebron, on 12 October 2025 - the first day of the olive harvest.
Masturzo’s photograph appeared in the April edition of L’Espresso, alongside reports on the expansion of Israel’s settler movement and its impact on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
“The settler's expression is reflected in the gesture he repeats, mimicking the sound a shepherd makes when gathering his flock, addressing the Palestinians as if they were his own animals,” the photojournalist said.
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The magazine also reported testimonies from Palestinians in the Jordan Valley, where settlers, often backed by Israeli…