Is Armistice Day a suitable time to protest?

CALLING Palestine demonstrations ‘hate marches’ is a misnomer. They should be called ‘anger marches’. Those protesting are only expressing their anger at the manner in which innocent civilians in Gaza are being cruelly made to pay for the actions of Hamas. SHAFICK EMMAMBOKUS, CRANFORD, MIDDX.

I APPEAL to Rishi Sunak, Suella Braverman and Metropolitan Police chief Sir Mark Rowley to publicly ban any Pro-Palestinian demonstrations on Armistice Day for the sake of our veterans participating in remembrance ceremonies. Armistice Day belongs to them.

robin a. barnard, london se19. WHY is it undemocratic to say this weekend is an important occasion for the British people, so you can’t march through Central London?

D. JOHNSON, TAYPORT, FIFE. I HAVE attended the last three pro-Palestine marches in London and never heard what Philip Ingram (Mail) described as ‘disgusting antiSemitic chants’. I have, however, met various principled Jewish groups who have been protesting against the appalling slaughter being perpetrated by the Israeli Defence Forces against a trapped civilian population. I have seen no photographs in the Mail of the Orthodox Jews who have been part of the protest for years against the ravages and apartheid of the Israeli state. There has been no mention of Jewish Voice for Labour, who have also taken part in the demonstrations, or the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions. There were many Jews on the march last Saturday. Armistice Day is the perfect day for a protest for peace, a protest for a cessation of hostilities, for that is of course what armistice means. CORNELIUS MCAFEE, london n19.