“It’s been really, really quite scary not knowing when there's going to be the knock at the door,” Mansfield told Middle East Eye. Mansfield is among scores of activists, many of them elderly, who are awaiting dawn raids from counterterrorism police after publishing videos of themselves inviting support for the banned direct action group Palestine Action. Mansfield and around 100 others responded to the call from DOJ, uploading videos of themselves declaring: “Saving lives is not terrorism, I support Palestine Action, and I think you should too”. “I just had my shorts on, but that was it,” Ahmad told MEE. “I spent 38 years working for the government on their IT systems,” Ahmad said.