'Absolute nonsense!' Furious row breaks out on GB News after Dawn Neesom says 'questions must be answered'

"Who is funding them? That’s what I want to know. Where is this money coming from? We know there are Iranian sleeper cells actually, not that sleepy operating in this country. There have already been several arrests, including Iranian spies. It makes me very nervous.”

James Schneider responded: “Who is behind them? This is nonsense innuendo.”

Dawn fumed: “Is it? Why is it nonsense innuendo? They’re getting money from somewhere, James I don’t know where. There you go.”

James replied: “I’m not a spokesperson for them, but the idea that just because I don’t know exactly who funds an organisation which I presume is mostly supported by ordinary people somehow proves something sinister is going on, is nonsense.

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"Which is more likely? That they’re funded by ordinary donations, given how many people, hundreds of thousands, have marched weekly against the genocide? Or some spurious claim put forward by Laura Kuenssberg?

"What Kuenssberg suggested that there are Iranian links is just innuendo. I don’t know the facts.

"But they’re not funded by Martians either. That doesn’t mean I’d go on TV and say, ‘Well, there are questions to be answered about Martian funding.’ It’s a pure distraction.”

“The real question that needs answering is this: Why is our government still arming and supporting Israel in actions the British public clearly oppose?

"That’s the distraction here shifting focus away from Palestine Action, and away from what this is really about.”

The confrontation comes as the government prepares to ban Palestine Action under anti-terror legislation following a security breach at RAF Brize Norton last week.

Activists from the group penetrated the military base and sprayed red paint into the engines of two Airbus Voyager aircraft, causing significant damage.

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is expected to address Parliament today regarding the potential proscription, which would criminalise membership or support of the organisation.

Palestine Action member Saeed Taji Farouky defended the group's actions as an "escalation in tactics" aimed at disrupting what he called the "material supply chain to genocide."

He described the Government's plan to proscribe the group as "absurd," saying it would undermine fundamental principles of British democracy and the rule of law.

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley expressed his frustration about a planned Westminster demonstration in support of Palestine Action, scheduled for later today.

Rowley said he was "shocked and frustrated" at the protest, calling Palestine Action "an organised extremist criminal group, whose proscription as terrorists is being actively considered."

He explained that until the proscription takes effect, the force has "no power in law" to prevent the protest, though lawbreakers would be "dealt with robustly."