The Home Secretary has called for demonstrators to “step back” from plans to hold pro-Palestinian marches across the country this weekend, following a terror attack on a synagogue in Manchester in which two men were killed .

“I do think that carrying on in this way does feel un-British, it feels wrong,” Shabana Mahmood said.

Critics of this stance have suggested that the Palestinian cause can still be championed while recognising the horror that has gone on in Heaton Park . Others back Mahmood and see the protests as inappropriate and insensitive to a grieving community. So should the pro-Palestinian protests go ahead? The i Paper’s experts offer their perspective.

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