The group was proscribed as a terror organisation in July, but hundreds of people, many of pension age, took to the streets this weekend to defend them.

Updated at 4:16 p.m. Nearly a dozen University of Michigan students and alumni have been brought up on disciplinary charges for their participation in pro-Palestine protests over the last year – a move that has sparked concern for the right of free expression on campus and the over-policing of student protest movements.