TOLPUDDLE organisers faced anger at the weekend after allowing a local Israeli lobbying group to attend the festival.

Bournemouth Action for Israel used their stall to hand out leaflets including The Nazi Roots of Middle Eastern Anti-Semitism, which attendees said smeared Palestinians as nazi sympathisers.

The Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) branded the leaflet “sinister” and organised a petition calling on the group to be barred from next year’s event.

“The TUC pledges solidarity to the oppressed of the world. We must not give support to oppressors,” the petition read.

PSC member Glyn Oliver told the Star: “This is a trade union festival against exploitation and oppression, so why have they allowed this group to come and pretend they are friends of peace?

“We’ve had so many people coming up to us today saying how outraged they are.”

Organisers told other stall holders who protested that it was right that both sides of the argument should be made.

The group did not return for the second day of the festival yesterday.