Use your imagination and pretend, for just a few moments, that you have nothing worthwhile, meaningful, or enjoyable to do on Saturday afternoons.

Further imagine that you have so little respect or regard for your fellow countrymen, that you will deliberately act in such a selfish manner that thousands of police officers will have to be pulled away from preventing and investigating crimes, from protecting vulnerable communities, all because of your self-centred thinking.

And now, as you piece together the final part of this fictional and revolting caricature of yourself, you have to add the warped intention to spout antisemitic venom, and an avowed desire to deliberately break the law by supporting a proscribed terrorist organisation. By the way, I should tell you that if, in the real world, you were convicted of such a crime, in all likelihood you would have extreme difficulty in travelling the world freely, in getting a mortgage or other loan, and your employment prospects would be very slim indeed.

Okay, exercise over. Many congratulations if your imagination was vivid enough to conjure up such an odious version of yourself. You managed, for a brief while, to become a fully-fledged Pro-Palestine protester.

Some 2,000 of these clowns have sat on the ground, held placards expressing support for Palestine Action, (an organisation that was outlawed on July 5 this year), and consequently been arrested.

Massive police resources have been seconded to London from all corners of the UK, in order to deal with these people who have deliberately set out to try and bring British policing to its knees, along with the wider criminal justice system.

Thus far they have manifestly failed, and have been repeatedly out-manoeuvred by the police who have deployed some very creative tactics, such as processing arrested people at mobile centres set up in nearby streets.

Whether or not the police can continue to deal with such vast numbers of these self-absorbed and brain-dead people that they are obliged to arrest, remains to be seen, but as the very welcome news reaches us that a peace deal has been struck between Hamas and Israel, which promises a ceasefire and a better future for the people of Gaza, then surely the need for these demonstrations begins to subside?

I wish...

Massive police resources have been seconded to London from all corners of the UK, in order to deal with Palestine protests

In light of the appalling Islamic-fundamentalist terror attack on a synagogue in Greater Manchester last week, many politicians, including the Prime Minister, called on Pro-Palestine protesters to abandon their plans for last weekend, so that police resources would not be drawn away from their very necessary work protecting places of worship, and communities who were living in fear. But no, these fanatical and unhinged cretins carried on, with some 500 of their number forcing the police to arrest them.

I strongly suspect that they will continue with their obsessive, self-serving behaviour, with no regard for anyone other than themselves.

If their commitment to the people of Gaza was anything other than performative, and the ceasefire holds, then surely, they would call an end to the protests and head off to the Middle East in their droves, wrapped in their keffiyehs, keen to plough their time, efforts and cash into rebuilding Gaza. I won’t hold my breath.

Peter bleksley says if the activists' commitment to the people of Gaza is anything other than performative, then surely, they will call an end to the protests

What is far more likely to happen is that Parliament will be asked to grant more powers to ministers and the police, so that they can ban any such marches and protests that occur so regularly and, in such numbers, that the police are unable to cope.

These Guardian-reading, Palestine flag waving, lentil-munching types will whinge and whine about their rights being eroded by an authoritarian regime, when in effect, they will have brought such a law change entirely upon themselves.

It simply cannot happen quickly enough.