ACTIVISTS have disrupted a party celebrating the Ministry of Defence’s (MoD) awarding of a £240 million contract to CIA-linked US surveillance firm Palantir at a posh venue in central London.

Members of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) met with placards and megaphones outside the event, which they discovered hours before the start would be in a building where the Baftas are usually held in Mayfair.

The PSC said it was not the first time the historic building known for celebrating the best of British cinema was used for a Palantir-related event.

Activists waited for top figures of the company best known for offering services to Ice immigration services in the US, the Israeli military — and now the British Ministry of Defence.

The contract awarded by the Labour government is thought to be the largest-ever MoD contract.

Chants of “Palantir out of the UK!” and “Your profits are covered in Palestinian blood!” were shouted as MoD and Palantir officials arrived at the gathering in their private cars.

Spotted at the event was Palantir UK’s chief executive Louis Mosley, who is the grandson of Oswald Mosley, known for leading the British Union of Fascists (BUF) in the 1920s and 1930s.

Demands for contracts with the firm, founded by far-right tech tycoon Peter Thiel, to be reviewed have escalated following revelations that it won a controversial contract to handle NHS data while a client of Peter Mandelson’s lobbying firm Global Counsel.

A film-maker who worked in the Bafta building said she was “utterly shocked” to find out her workplace was being used to host what she called an “utterly diabolical” meeting.

Under condition of anonymity, she told the Star: “We screen films about Palestine here every day. This is extremely dark.”