Overview

• Student organizers say campus events marking two years since the Hamas attacks will proceed on Tuesday despite appeals from police, politicians and Jewish groups to postpone.
• Named actions include a Queen Mary University rally titled "Two Years of Genocide, Two Years of Resistance," a "Protest 4 Palestine" at Strathclyde, a Birmingham vigil to "honour our martyrs," a Goldsmiths protest, and talks at King's College London.
• Jewish organizations, including the Union of Jewish Students and the Jewish Leadership Council, condemned the timing as distressing for Jewish students and warned of rhetoric that could glorify terror.
• Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood announced plans to amend sections 12 and 14 of the Public Order Act, letting police factor cumulative disruption and raising penalties for breaching protest conditions to up to six months in jail or an unlimited fine.
• The plans follow nearly 500 arrests in London for support of the banned group Palestine Action and heightened concern after two worshippers were killed at Manchester's Heaton Park synagogue last week.