In your article “Anti-Israel protesters target SodaStream shop” (The Argus, September 15), you say we “clashed with members of the public and passers-by in Western Road who objected to the campaigners’ use of megaphones and the handing out of leaflets”.

This is not true, and nor was it put to me when I was contacted by your reporter.

The support we received from the public was overwhelming.

The only people who objected to the protesters using a megaphone or handing out leaflets were a small group of supporters of the Ecostream shop itself and a few Christian fundamentalists.

What is of more concern is that the police are trying to interpret council by-laws in order to restrict the rights of protest in Brighton by trying to prevent the use of loud hailers on demonstrations.

This is something we are determined to oppose as it is not for the police to say which demonstrations they approve of and which they do not.

The settlements in the West Bank [disputed territory between Israel and Jordan] are illegal under international law, specifically the fourth Geneva Convention of 1949. Use of their natural resources for the benefit of the occupying power is strictly forbidden.

Tony Greenstein, The Crestway, Brighton