In August 2025, video footage allegedly showing protesters in the U.K. blocking the motorcade of U.S. Vice President JD Vance circulated online. The protesters in the video held up banners that read: "Fascism = Terrorism. J.D. Vance Out." One TikTok video (archived) received more than 312,200 views, as of this writing. The same video also spread to other platforms, such as YouTube.
After hundreds of protesters heckled Vance during a July 2025 visit to Disneyland, the vice president and his family were spending their summer in a quiet region of the U.K. However, his arrival to the town of Sevenoaks was, again, met with protest.
The video footage above was authentic; other angles of the same event in which protesters blocked Vance's motorcade were available across multiple social media accounts, including the Instagram accounts of Sevenoaks for Palestine (archived) and the Stop Trump Coalition (archived), activist groups in the region.
We reached out to both groups seeking further details, and the Stop Trump Coalition confirmed, "This action was organised by local residents and we supported it. It took place near to Chevening, where Vance stayed with the UK foreign secretary."
One protester said the following in the Instagram video that Sevenoaks for Palestine posted:
We're here today in solidarity with over 500 ordinary members of the public who very likely are going to be arrested under terrorism laws for simply holding a sign saying "I support Palestine action and I oppose genocide. This is at the same time that David Lammy, the foreign secretary, is welcoming JD Vance, the vice president of the United States, to the U.K., as a conquering hero. This is while the U.S. is Israel's number one ally and is expressing open support for Israel and its ongoing genocide in Gaza and the West Bank. So we're here to say, not in our name.
On Aug. 8, Vance and U.K. foreign minister David Lammy met — and fished — together. The following day, police in London arrested 522 people who were protesting the U.K.'s decision to ban the group Palestine Action.
While the identity of the TikTok user who posted the widely circulated video was unknown, there were sufficient images and videos of the action and the banner in question to confirm that the event took place. Therefore, we rate this claim as true.