EUROPEAN nations are raising terror threat levels in anticipation of further Islamist terror attacks as Israel prepares for large-scale military action in Gaza, according to a security expert.

On the terror attack in Belgium, Dr Alan Mendoza of the Henry Jackson Society told GB News: “I’m afraid, unfortunately, it was to be expected.

“Before this attack, even although this was in Belgium, France had already gone to a very high terror alert because of the stabbing of a teacher…it was only inevitable that this would occur elsewhere.

“Many European countries now have raised terror levels on the grounds that they fear some kind of Islamist attack on other targets.

“This was of course a completely unprovoked target, two football fans shot dead, so anything could occur and I think the European authorities in different countries are gearing up for more such incidents.”

In a discussion with Bev Turner and Emily Carver, he said: “It’s extraordinary, what the BBC did, having spent nearly two weeks now arguing that a blatant terrorist atrocity in Israel was not terrorism, claiming it was just to remain neutral within seconds of this terrorist attack occurring.

“It seems to me the BBC have very grave questions to answer about what their real position is on these subjects, and indeed, questions about their neutrality or otherwise and why they will take a side when Jewish victims are involved when they wouldn’t do and haven’t done in the past when it’s anyone else, basically.”

On threats in the UK, he added: “We’ve always known that if you are unable to track who was in your country, unable to scan them and understand where they are…what you end up with is an obvious threat and obviously a national security threat.

“That is why we have been arguing for some time that the whole asylum process needs to be managed much more carefully and much more rigorously.

“Why there is obviously a clamour within government to get control of it because it’s not simply an issue when it comes to economics and development, issues like that, it’s also a national security one.

“You just don’t know who’s coming in, what they might believe, and indeed what terrible things they might commit in the pursuit of a twisted ideology.”