“One grasped my upper arm and forcibly led me away. My details were taken and I was escorted out of Parliament.”
He added: “It wasn’t a case of ‘not on the list you’re not coming in’ but of ‘don’t like your views you’re not coming in’.”
He said a friend who was allowed into the meeting spoke in support of Israel and afterwards was surrounded and intimidated in an incident witnessed and recorded by the police.
Mr Millett said appeals to be let in to those at the event, including Mr Corbyn, were ignored. Yet he said that at pro-Israel events dissenting audience members would almost never be thrown out.
“I am surprised that an MP can treat it as her or her own personal fiefdom. Parliament is for all.
“If one wants to hold a private meeting then hold it in a house, not the House.”
At the talk, MK Haneen Zoubi, who was on the Gaza-bound flotilla, said: "Everyone in Europe who supports Israel, financially and politically, must know they also support its racism, oppression, occupation and siege.”
Another MK, Jamal Zahalka, talked about his views on “democracy” in Israel.
But as Mr Millett said, at the meeting no one spoke up for his “basic democratic right” to attend.
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