The protest organisers had pleaded for the far-right leader Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, better known as Tommy Robinson, to stay away, but he failed to, leading to his arrest by police after he refused to leave the area.
Organisers said up to 60,000 people had attended the march, making it the biggest stand against antisemitism since 1936, when protesters confronted Oswald Mosley's blackshirts at Cable Street in east London.
At the march the chief rabbi vowed that British Jews "will not be intimidated" by antisemitism. Sir Ephraim Mirvis said: "We call for a strengthening of community cohesion and we will for ever be proud to champion the finest of British values.
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