Metropolitan Police officers film members of the Jewish Society of the School of Oriental and African Studies SOAS taking part in a counter-protest to pro-Israel activists contesting a speech at the university by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories OPT Francesca Albanese on 11th November 2024 in London, United Kingdom. The Special Rapporteur is an independent expert appointed by the UN Human Rights Council to follow and report on the human rights situation in the OPT. International lawyer Francesca Albanese, who was appointed to the role in May 2022, has faced a sustained campaign to discredit her from the Israeli government and its supporters.