Police are to be given greater powers to restrict protests after demonstrations in support of Palestine Action went ahead despite pleas to cancel following the Manchester synagogue attack.
Police forces will be allowed to consider the "cumulative impact" of repeated demonstrations in order to impose conditions on public processions and assemblies.
It comes as Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said repeated large-scale protests had caused "considerable fear" for the Jewish community.
There has been criticism of organisers of the pro-Palestine Action protest in central London on Saturday for letting the protest go ahead despite pleas from the Met Police, Prime Minister and Ms Mahmood for it to be cancelled. Almost 500 people were arrested at the event in Trafalgar Square in support of the proscribed terror group.
Protests were also held on Thursday hours after the Manchester synagogue attack.
Pro-Palestine protests that have been held since the Israel-Hamas conflict began in Gaza have also been criticised for being scenes of anti-semitism.
In a crackdown announced on Sunday, the Government said it will amend Sections 12 and 14 of the Public Order Act 1986 to explicitly allow the police to take account of the cumulative impact of frequent protests on local areas in order to impose conditions on public processions and assemblies.
The Home Secretary will also review existing legislation to ensure powers are sufficient and are being applied consistently by police forces - this will include powers to ban protests outright.
She said: "The right to protest is a fundamental freedom in our country.
"However, this freedom must be balanced with the freedom of their neighbours to live their lives without fear.
"Large, repeated protests can leave sections of our country, particularly religious communities, feeling unsafe, intimidated and scared to leave their homes.
"This has been particularly evident in relation to the considerable fear within the Jewish community, which has been expressed to me on many occasions in these recent difficult days.
"These changes mark an important step in ensuring we protect the right to protest while ensuring all feel safe in this country."
Ms Mahmood offered more detail on Sky News’ Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips, saying she was working to close a “gap in the law” on protests.
She told Sky News’ Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips: “The strengthening of the legislation that I’m going to bring about is based on the ability of the police to place conditions and restrictions on protests.
“And what I will be making explicit is that cumulative disruption – that is to say, the frequency of particular protests in particular places – is, in and of itself, a reason for the police to be able to restrict and place conditions.
“That is to say, they can move them to a different place, they can restrict the time that those protests can occur on, so that will unlock all of the broader measures that the police can already do on protests.
“It’s been clear to me in conversations in the last couple of days that there is a gap in the law and there is an inconsistency of practice, so I’ll be taking measures immediately to put that right.
“And I will be reviewing our wider protest legislation as well to make sure the arrangements we have can meet the scale of the challenge that we face, which is protecting the right to protest, but ensuring that our communities can go about their daily business without feeling intimidated and also that public order can be maintained.”
The new laws could also be used to crackdown on repeated protests such as the anti-migrant hotel protests seen over the summer.
Multiple protests were held outside the Bell Hotel in Epping amid concern about the accomodation’s impact on the community.
Kemi Badenoch has said the Conservatives would support Labour's proposal to expand policing powers.
She told the BBC's Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg programme: "Of course we will support them.
"But what took them so long?
"And the issue, from my perspective, is why should the public trust a Home Secretary who not that long ago was protesting herself, lay down, closed a Sainsbury's supermarket because it was stocking Israeli goods?"
She added: "We believe in free speech, but that has to be within the bounds of the law.
"If people are using protest to intimidate, if they're using protest to incite violence, then no, it's not protest."
