{"id":237920,"date":"2026-01-14T18:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T18:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/237920\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T18:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T18:03:09","slug":"protest-over-damian-egan-school-visit-very-concerning-pm-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/237920\/","title":{"rendered":"Protest over Damian Egan school visit &#8216;very concerning&#8217;, PM says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Bristol branch of the National Education Union also welcomed the cancellation, saying it was &#8220;a win for safeguarding, solidarity and for the power of the NEU trade union staff group, parents and campaigners standing together&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The incident only became widely known when Communities Secretary Steve Reed mentioned it during an appearance at the Jewish Labour Movement conference on Sunday, describing it as &#8220;an absolute outrage&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Egan himself has yet to comment publicly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Raising the issue in Parliament on Wednesday, Conservative MP Lincoln Jopp said Egan had been barred from visiting the school &#8220;because he is Jewish&#8221; and described the incident as &#8220;antisemitism&#8230; happening in plain sight&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bristol branch of the National Education Union also welcomed the cancellation, saying it was &#8220;a win for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-237920","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\/237920","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=237920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}