The UK immigration minister, Robert Jenrick, on Wednesday, said that foreign nationals will be barred from staying in the country if they incite antisemitism, even if their conduct falls “below the criminal standard,” according to the guardian news.
Robert Jenrick made the comments following a number of pro-Palestine protests in which a small minority of participants have been accused of shouting anti-Semitic slurs.
It comes after he on Tuesday told the Commons that the process of revoking visas and expelling foreign nationals who spread “hate and division” had already begun in some cases.
The minister said it would not extend to someone waving a Palestinian flag at demonstrations.
“We believe in freedom of speech,” he told Times Radio, adding: “I think there is conduct which is below the criminal standard but which is wrong, would be accepted as wrong by most reasonable people.
“If those people are not British citizens, they are just visitors to our country enjoying the privileges of living here… I’m afraid their visas will be revoked and they should leave.”
