Overview

• Student organisers say rallies and campus walkouts will proceed on Tuesday, with events advertised at Queen Mary, King’s, Goldsmiths, Strathclyde, Sheffield and across multiple London institutions including LSE, UCL, SOAS and Imperial.
• Keir Starmer urged students to stay away, calling anniversary protests unpatriotic and asking people to show “humanity” given the context of the Hamas attacks and recent violence in Manchester.
• Jewish groups including the Board of Deputies, the Jewish Leadership Council and the Union of Jewish Students condemned the timing, citing pain for Jewish students and safety concerns after the Heaton Park synagogue attack.
• Police arrested hundreds at a Palestine Action demonstration in London over the weekend, underscoring pressure on forces already preparing for further rallies.
• Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood announced plans to amend sections 12 and 14 of the Public Order Act to let police factor in the cumulative impact of repeated protests, with the Home Office considering additional powers over events that risk intimidation, according to the i Paper.