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Starmer attracted criticism last week over his position on Israel’s right to cut off water and electricity
Robert Jenrick said some people had been seen “glorifying” terror activities and “praising Hamas”.
The home office minister said he could not get into “specific cases” of visa-holders whose conduct is being reviewed, saying there was a “legal process that must be followed properly”.
We’ve all seen instances of people glorifying, valorising terrorist activities - we’ve seen people holding deeply antisemitic banners, being interviewed on the media and praising Hamas.
That is disgusting behaviour. I don’t want to see that on our streets. And if that person is just a visitor to our country, they should not be doing that.
No, we believe in freedom of speech.
But I disagree with your premise that... somebody who is here as a visitor to the UK has the right to be antisemitic, to threaten British communities and can stay unless that is of criminal standard.
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