In January 2011, US pastor Terry Jones was barred from entering Britain. He had called for an International Burn a Koran Day on the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks (BBC, 2011a, 20 January 2011). In June 2011, Palestinian activist Sheikh Raed Salah was detained under an exclusion order, barring him from visiting the UK amidst accusations of ‘virulent anti-Semitism’ (Hansard, 27 June 2011, p. 614). Salah had already spoken at a meeting in Leicester and had been due to attend a Palestine Solidarity Campaign meeting at the House of Commons (Travis, 2011). The Home Secretary Teresa May, supporting such bans, stated: ‘Coming here is a privilege that we refuse to extend to those who seek to subvert our shared values’ (Hansard, 27 June 2011, p. 614).