“From Leicester to Golders Green: Failure to confront extremism is tearing Britain apart”, First Post, May 06, 2026
“The first casualty of a polarised age is not truth; it is proportion. And nowhere is that more evident today than in the rising tide of anti-Semitism and anti-Hinduism across the West — and increasingly within the United Kingdom itself. What was once confined to the fringes has moved into the mainstream of public discourse. It is no longer just rhetoric; it is behaviour — visible on the streets, on public transport, and in the quiet calculations of British Jews who now think twice about where they walk, what they wear, and when they speak.
Britain has been here before. Under Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour Party became engulfed in a crisis that exposed institutional hesitation in confronting anti-Semitism. That reckoning was painful and reputationally costly, but it forced a moment of clarity. For a time, it seemed as though a line had been drawn. Yet prejudice does not disappear — it migrates.
Today, scrutiny has shifted towards the Green Party of England and Wales and figures such as Zack Polanski. A recent article from The Jewish Chronicle highlights a reluctance to confront the specific sources and expressions of anti-Semitism, favouring instead a broader framing that avoids uncomfortable particularities. This instinct — to generalise rather than identify — is not neutral. It dilutes accountability at precisely the moment clarity is required……”
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