{"id":235207,"date":"2026-01-13T04:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T04:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/235207\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T04:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T04:14:11","slug":"mps-school-visit-cancelled-over-pro-palestine-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/235207\/","title":{"rendered":"MP&#8217;s school visit cancelled over pro-Palestine protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That is an absolute outrage&#8230; and they will be called in, and they will be held to account for doing that, because you cannot have people with those kinds of attitudes teaching our children. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You just can&#8217;t have it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Egan confirmed the event had been cancelled but declined to comment further. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a statement to the Times, the school said it postponed Egan&#8217;s appearance because of a planned protest near the school grounds, and said it had a concern it would clash with the end of the school day. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The school rearranged a date for the MP&#8217;s visit and contacted police for advice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The BBC has reached out to the school for comment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On 5 September, when the event had been due to go ahead, the Palestine Solidarity Bristol group published a social media post celebrating the cancellation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said the event had been axed after &#8220;concerns were raised by the National Education Union trade union staff group, parents and local constituents&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said the cancellation was &#8220;a clear message&#8221; that politicians who support Israel&#8217;s actions in Gaza &#8220;are not welcome in our schools&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The National Education Union has been contacted for a comment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;That is an absolute outrage&#8230; and they will be called in, and they will be held to account&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-235207","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}