POLICE may show glaring inconsistencies in their response to a next wave of protests against the ban on Palestine Action campaigners have warned.

Defend Our Juries (DoJ) has announced plans for 20 protests between November 18 and 29.

More than 1,500 people already have been arrested at other protests held by the group, where demonstrators peacefully hold signs reading “I support Palestine Action. I oppose genocide.”

Most arrests have been in London, with the Metropolitan Police taking a strict approach.

But DoJ notes police responses vary across the country, previously arguing that it “brings the law into disrepute.”

Campaigners say police in Truro chose not to make arrests at a demonstration in October after previously doing so in July.

Oliver Baines, who will take part in an action in the city on Tuesday, said: “Devon and Cornwall Police pride themselves on their community policing, so a group of local residents sitting in silent vigil opposing genocide was always going to create a dilemma for them.

“Their subsequent change of policy was typified by one officer who described the October protest as ‘lovely and peaceful’.”

A demonstration will also take place for the first time in Belfast next Saturday. There have been previous independently organised demonstrations in Derry, but no arrests were made, DoJ said.

Police Scotland have not made arrests directly at actions in Edinburgh, only afterwards, but maintained that support for Palestine Action is an offence under the Terrorism Act 2000.

The forces’ Chief Superintendent Stevie Dolan said: “We enforce the law in a proportionate way in conjunction with advice from the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service.”

Elle Miller, who will take part in an action in Edinburgh on Tuesday, said: “If sitting peacefully with a cardboard sign makes me a terrorist, then I hope my great-grandchildren will be as proud of me as relatives of the suffragettes are today.”

Police in Cornwall, Northern Ireland and the Met were contacted for comment.