Fiona Monro was convicted for stealing a memorial poster of an Israeli hostage amid protest-related vandalism.

Fiona Monro, 58, of Brighton, was convicted of theft for removing a laminated poster of Israeli hostage Tzachi Idan from a public memorial in February 2024 and discarding it. The act occurred amid widespread vandalism of similar memorials linked to protests over the Israel-Hamas conflict following Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack. Monro, married to a Jewish anti-Zionist activist, claimed the memorial was not representative and the poster inflammatory. She was acquitted of criminal damage after writing a slogan about Palestinian casualties. The court ruled her actions caused unnecessary distress and were not protected political expression. She received an 18-month conditional discharge and was ordered to pay $1,637 in costs. Organizers called the conviction a rare victory against vandalism.