MP’s visit to school cancelled after opposition from pro-Palestine group

Damien Egan, a Jewish MP and vice-chair of Labour Friends of Israel, had a visit with a local academy called off ‘in case his presence inflames the teachers’

A planned visit by a Jewish Labour MP who is a vice-chair of Labour Friends of Israel was cancelled after a campaign by a pro-Palestine group, it has emerged.

Damien Egan, the Labour MP for Bristol North East, had been booked to speak to students at Bristol Brunel academy, but the visit was called off by the school hours before it was due to happen.

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Source: www.theguardian.com

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