A statue of Winston Churchill in Westminster was vandalised by pro-Palestine protesters.
Graffiti was sprayed on the statue of the former Prime Minister with the words "Stop the Genocide" and "Free Palestine".
The bronze statue of Sir Winston was unveiled just metres away from the Houses of Parliament in 1973.
Other graffiti read: "Never again is Now", "Globalise the Intifada", and "Greetings from the Hague" in Dutch.
The statue was vandalised with graffiti
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The statue was targeted overnight
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Reacting to the news, Deputy Chair of the Conservatives Matt Vickers told GB News: "It is disgusting and vile. Whoever is doing this needs to be held to account. When we were in office we brought forward legislation to help tackle this.
"This is an attack on democracy, this is an attack on this country, its culture and its history."
A Met Police spokesman told GB News: "Shortly after 4am on Friday, February 27 a man was seen spraying graffiti on the statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square.
"The first officers were on the scene within two minutes. The man, who is 38, was arrested on suspicion of racially aggravated criminal damage. He remains in custody."
The bronze statue of Sir Winston was unveiled just metres away from the Houses of Parliament in 1973
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Cleaners have removed the graffiti from the base of the statue this morning
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Sir Winston was a strong supporter of Zionism, having campaigned to withdraw British forces from Palestine and allow the birth of a Jewish state in the area.
When Churchill returned as Prime Minister in 1951, he pivoted foreign policy in the Middle East in a more pro-Israel direction.
Shortly before his retirement in 1955, he told the Israeli ambassador, in the latter’s paraphrase, that he was "happy that future generations would thereby know that the sons of the prophets dwelling in Zion were among his many well-wishers from all over the world."