Overview

• Metropolitan Police interviewed Maria Gallastegui under caution over her concentration camp–style outfit at a Trafalgar Square protest this week.
• Home Secretary Yvette Cooper plans to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation, making membership or support punishable by up to 14 years in prison.
• Jewish leaders and MPs condemned Gallastegui’s portrayal of a Holocaust prisoner with an Islamic symbol as a distressing distortion of historical suffering.
• Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick accused law enforcement of applying a “two-tier blasphemy law” after officers intervened in other demonstrations but not Gallastegui’s stunt.
• Clashes between police and pro-Palestinian protesters on June 23 led to 13 arrests for offences including assaulting an emergency worker and breaching public order conditions.