Robert Jenrick, the United Kingdom’s immigration minister, announced that foreign nationals in British territory could face deportation if they engage in or spread anti-Semitism. The country exercises no such policy for foreign nationals who engage in anti-British, or anti-white sentiment.
Jenrick, who serves in Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party government, said that there is a “legal process that must be followed properly” but the policy would concern those ‘glorifying’ terrorists and “praising Hamas.”
“I think there is conduct which is below the criminal standard but which is wrong, would be accepted as wrong by most reasonable people,” Jenrick told Rupert Murdoch’s Times Radio. “If those people are not British citizens, they are just visitors to our country enjoying the privileges of living here, being among fellow British people, then I’m afraid their visas will be revoked and they should leave the country.” The UK immigration minister did stress, however, that the government supports ‘free speech’ and that those who simply wave Palestinian flags would not be impacted.
“We’ve all seen instances of people glorifying, valorizing terrorist activities – we’ve seen people holding deeply antisemitic banners, being interviewed on the media and praising Hamas,” continued Jenrick, specifically addressing those he believed would be impacted by the policy. “That is disgusting behaviour… I can’t look a British Jewish person in the eye as immigration minister and say I’ve allowed somebody to remain at our pleasure in this country, who is conducting themselves in that manner – that is wrong.”
Jenrick emphasized that, “If you come to this country, you abide by British values.”
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