{"id":120406,"date":"2023-10-25T16:49:01","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T16:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yourclomid.com\/?p=120406"},"modified":"2023-10-25T16:49:01","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T16:49:01","slug":"at-least-6-foreign-nationals-face-losing-their-visas-over-anti-semitic-behaviour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yourclomid.com\/politics\/at-least-6-foreign-nationals-face-losing-their-visas-over-anti-semitic-behaviour\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 6 foreign nationals face losing their visas over anti-Semitic behaviour"},"content":{"rendered":"

At least six foreign nationals are under threat of having their visas revoked for anti-Semitic behaviour or comments, it has emerged.<\/p>\n

Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick has warned \u201cif you come to this country, you abide by British values\u201d as fury mounts over the conduct of some pro-Palestine protesters.<\/p>\n

Some chanted for \u201cjihad\u201d during a rally in London on Saturday while others have praised terror group Hamas on social media after the slaughter of 1,400 people in Israel on October 7.<\/p>\n

And the Daily Express understands at least six foreign nationals in the UK are having their visas reconsidered.<\/p>\n

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Mr Jenrick said: \u201cHave no doubt about the Home Secretary\u2019s and my determination that people who spread hate in our country have no right to be here.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added on Times Radio: \u201cWe 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 anti-Semitic, to threaten British communities and can stay unless that is of criminal standard.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think there is conduct which is below the criminal standard, which is wrong, would be accepted as wrong by most reasonable people.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd if those people are not British citizens, they\u2019re just visitors to our country enjoying the privileges of living here, being amongst fellow British people, then I\u2019m afraid their visas will be revoked and they should leave the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t look a British Jewish person in the eye as Immigration Minister and say that I\u2019ve allowed somebody to remain at our pleasure in this country who is conducting themselves in that manner. That is wrong. If you come to this country, you abide by British values.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mr Jenrick wrote to every police chief on Friday night \u201creminding\u201d them they can alert the Home Office to people celebrating atrocities or engaging in other unlawful or extremist behaviour.<\/p>\n

Ministers can revoke foreign nationals\u2019 visas if they are \u201cnot conducive to the public good\u201d or a threat to national security.
Protests over the past two weekends have prompted renewed debate over the efficacy of Britain\u2019s hate crime laws.<\/p>\n

Sir Mark Rowley, the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, warned hate crime laws fail to recognise \u201cthe ability\u201d of extremist groups \u201cto steer around those laws\u201d.<\/p>\n

He said: “We’re accountable for the law. We can’t enforce taste or decency, but we can enforce the law.<\/p>\n

“The conversation finished really around the line of the law. It’s our job to enforce to that line. It’s Parliament’s job to draw that line.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe some of the lines aren’t quite in the right place.<\/p>\n

“The law that we’ve designed around hate crime and terrorism over recent decades hasn’t taken full account of the ability of extremist groups to steer around those laws and propagating the truly toxic messages through social media.<\/p>\n

“Those lines probably need redrawing.”<\/p>\n

The Daily Express understands ministers, police and the Crown Prosecution Service are examining whether new guidance is needed to give officers clarity they can arrest people using existing legislation.<\/p>\n