The protests come in the wake of growing concern over rising levels of hate crime, in particular antisemitism, in Britain. Prime Minister Keir Starmer said earlier this month that there may be a case for banning some protests, and people chanting slogans such as “globalise the intifada,” based on an Arabic word for uprising, should be prosecuted. He pledged to use the “full power of the state” to crack down on antisemitism in the wake of an April stabbing in North London where two Jewish men were hospitalized.