Sarah Harte: Right to peaceful protest can’t be at a cost to human rights of others

Dozens of students have set up an encampment on the grounds of Trinity College Dublin to pressurise the college authorities to cut ties with Israel due to its actions in Gaza. Picture: @TCDSU_President/Twitter

Everywhere you look at the moment there’s protest. 

Some of it is healthy and some quite the opposite because there’s a marked difference between protests that may be disruptive but democratically acceptable and protests that are designed to target and intimidate public figures.