WHEN ex-Home Secretary Suella Braverman first branded the Gaza protests as “hate marches”, she was instantly hit with cries of “racist” and “fascist”.
The great and good at the BBC simply could not comprehend how these supposedly peaceful rallies could ever be linked to menace.
AlamyPro-Palestinian activists block Whitehall just hours after two Jewish worshipers were murdered at a synagogue[/caption]
Jon BondThe Sun’s Noa Hoffman says Sir Keir Starmer must call out Gaza protests for what they are: hate marches[/caption]
And the middle-class virtue signallers, parading in their keffiyehs alongside Islamist extremists and Hamas sympathisers, sneered that anyone critical of the demonstrations was guilty of “Islamophobia”.
But Britain’s Jewish community, across all mainstream political stripes, knew Braverman was exactly right.
Since October 7, we have watched in dread as thousands masquerading as champions of human rights cosplayed as terrorists and glorified the worst slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust.
We stayed away from city centres during the marches, knowing full well they would be utterly devoid of calls to free Israeli hostages – despite the presence of some well-meaning do-gooders.
And above all, we recognised where the chants for “jihad” and to “globalise the intifada” would inevitably lead.
On Thursday, our darkest fears became grim reality.
Unchecked Islamist extremism, emboldened on these protests, left two innocent, beautiful lives brutally taken.
I do not envy ministers wrestling with the delicate balance between free assembly and public safety.
But we also know that when Sir Keir Starmer wishes to make his view on specific marches clear, he does so with ease.
He rightly rails against far-right firebrands like Tommy Robinson and rightly condemns his followers when they attack our police on protests.
So where is your outrage now, Prime Minister, when just 48 hours after Manchester, calls for violent Islamist revolution – a global intifada – will once more echo through our streets?
If Sir Keir truly means what he says about protecting Jewish citizens, he should at least have the courage to call these demonstrations what they are: hate marches.
Otherwise, don’t act surprised when the “two-tier Keir” tag sticks.
And don’t feign shock when the next Islamist attack on our patriotic, proud and peaceful community strikes again.
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