Vienna Rules Against Embassy Encampments

Pro‑Palestinian activists are setting up round‑the‑clock encampments and chaining gates at Israeli and other consulates. Under Article 22 of the Vienna Convention, host states must prevent intrusions, disturbances of the peace, and impairments of a mission’s dignity—standards these tactics likely breach. That makes embassy‑site protest management an international‑law obligation, not only a local free‑speech call. — It shifts the debate over protest policing at diplomatic sites by foregrounding binding treaty duties that can supersede typical domestic protest norms.