Israel Philharmonic orchestra

We had been told to be at the hall at 6 p.m. which meant we could not attend the pre-Prom talk. There were bag searches and then spent 90 minutes reading about. Judaism in my textbook. Freda and Ann chatty. Zubin Mehta celebrating his 75th year. The Webern Passacaglia with score was disrupted by a group singing Ode to Joy. The Bruch violin concerto was disrupted by people in the circle shouting who were removed by security with some difficulty. Gil Shaham played Bach encore. After the interval Albeniz Iberia could not start with more protests in the circle. Right below me an audience member went for a protester and people were shouting "Out". The order of pieces was changed so we got in a muddle having orchestral version of El Puerto and piano version for the other 2. There was even more shouting before Capriccio espagnol. We did not stay for any encores. It seems nobody was arrested! This was clearly a planned disruption and the broadcast was stopped as a result. It may have been counter productive. While I would support Palestinians this is not the way to achieve change.