UK: Robert Jenrick calls for ban on Palestine advocacy group Friends of Al-Aqsa

Conservative Party leadership contender Robert Jenrick has called for the UK to ban "extremist groups" like Friends of Al-Aqsa and the Palestinian Forum in Britain.

Jenrick is one of four candidates trying to win leadership of a party that was thoroughly defeated in the UK general election in July.

All of those standing to lead the Tories are ardent Zionists who back Israel's ongoing military campaign in Gaza, over which Israel is facing genocide charges at the International Court of Justice.

"We urgently need to amend our laws to combat the scale of extremism on our streets," Jenrick, the former immigration minister, wrote in a column for the Daily Mail on Monday.

"We can no longer wait to proscribe the IRGC. So we must capture the extremist groups, not involved in terrorism - like Friends of Al Aqsa or the Palestinian Forum in Britain - but that harm our communities and public order, by creating a new category for banning organisations."