Police were called in to halt the demonstration.

The Jewish school, which rents classroom space, has 30 students ages 5 to 13 and is sponsored by the Israeli Embassy in Minsk.

Protesters reportedly told police they were members of an ultra-nationalist group called White Power that “fights for the purity of the Belarussian people.”

The former Soviet republic of Belarus has a Jewish population of about 100,000.

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