Your report that armed police threatened to arrest a protester for holding a Palestine flag, citing grounds that she might support a proscribed terror organisation (Report, 17 July), is truly chilling. It shows that the police are either completely ignorant of the law or – more likely – that they are using the proscription of a peaceful, non-violent direct action group, Palestine Action, to try to criminalise the movement as a whole.
What an indictment of our policing, and indeed this Labour government, that peaceful campaigning against a genocide in Gaza is now treated as a crime on a par with terrorist activity.
