The British government is to grant new powers to police to curtail protests following calls from pro-Israel organisations to crack down on Gaza campaigners.
The powers, announced by the Home Office a day after hundreds of people were arrested for opposing Palestine Action's terror ban, will make it easier for police to ban protests and impose restrictions on repeated demonstrations.
In a televised interview on Sunday, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood denied that the powers were about banning protests but would place "restrictions and conditions" on their activities.
Under the changes, officers will consider the "cumulative impact" of repeated protests on local areas. They could impose a range of conditions on protest organisers, including instructing them to move demonstrations to different locations, the Home Office said.
The powers would be "brought forward as soon as possible" and further details announced in due course, it said.
The changes appear to be aimed at pro-Palestinian protests, dozens of which have taken place in London since Israel began its genocidal assault on Gaza almost two years ago.
Demonstrations against the genocide in London on Saturday received criticism from the government and right-wing media, coming in the wake of Thursday's attack at a Manchester synagogue.
The attacker, a British-Syrian man, killed one Jewish worshipper while a second was shot dead by police.
Following the attack, British pro-Israel organisations called on the government to suppress protests against Israel's destruction of Gaza, which they claimed were "antisemitic" and allegedly threatened the country's Jewish community.
"We are demanding that the government look again at the legislation and power available to police to stop this continued assault on community relations", the Board of Deputies said in a statement on Saturday.
The Board also called on the government to prosecute those arrested for opposing the proscription of Palestine Action for "stirring up racial hatred".
Almost 500 were detained under the Terrorism Act in London on Saturday for protesting the ban, taking the total number of arrests since July to more than 1,600.
Defend Our Juries, the campaign group leading the Palestine Action protests, described the decision as an "authoritarian" move by a "government enabling a genocide and silencing opposition".
Amnesty International also slammed the government for further clamping down on protest and its "draconian misuse" of anti-terror legislation.
"Is the Government seriously suggesting that people protesting its decisions should only be able to do that a limited number of times? If it is, it is a ludicrous proposal, and if not, this announcement is just a cynical attempt at looking tough," Amnesty International UK’s Law and Human Rights Director Tom Southerden said in a statement.
Meanwhile, British pro-Israel organisations called on the government to go even further in its suppression of pro-Palestinian activism.
In a statement on Sunday, the Board said the Home Office's announcement was a "necessary start" but was not enough to assuage its concerns.
"We have been calling for this for many months, and it was one of our key demands in the meeting with the Prime Minister and Home Secretary on Friday," it said.
"But the government now needs to go further. We will work with them to ensure that these and other measures are as effective as possible in protecting our community."
Gideon Falter, the head of the Campaign Against Antisemitism and board member of the Jewish National Fund, called for a Trump-style crackdown on pro-Palestinian sentiment across British society.
Writing in the Telegraph on Sunday, Falter demanded a purge of pro-Palestine voices from the BBC, universities and professional bodies, and a complete ban on demonstrations.