A great and very balanced article. I have taken part in pro Palestine rights / anti- genocide matched. I am Jewish. I am done with politicians telling me how I should feel and think about Israel or Zionism. I guess they think I am the wrong kind of Jew. Anti-semitism and Islamophobia are two sides of the same coin. They should not be treated differently, yet they are.

Starmer, Badenoch et al are sounding more desperate each day. It’s as if they can no longer control the narrative so are reverting to authoritarian behaviour.

If Starmer really was the grown up in the room as he likes to think he is, he would tackle this in a different way. He should condemn in the strongest way possible the heinous the war crimes conducted by Israel across Gaza, the West Bank, Southern Lebanon and Golan in Syria. This is not in the name of Judaism. It is simply a political agenda. He should make very clear Jewish people in the U.K. are not responsible for the actions of the Israeli Gov.

Conversely, he should make it clear that any nefarious action related to Iran or their proxies has nothing to do with Muslims in the U.K.

In both situations, clearly state any religious led attack on either community won’t be tolerated and will be punished harshly.

But he needs to go further. There are a lot of people in the Jewish community who do support the Israeli Gov and their actions and they are openly promoting and celebrating the murder of Palestinians and now Lebanese and Iranians. And worse, this is being led by some Rabbis. This needs to stop. Tell me how different that is to a British Iman promoting radical views and who is branded an extremist? The Gov has clamped down on the few cases of Islamic extremism and needs to do the same with extremism in the Jewish community.

Add to that, approximately 3000 U.K. citizens have served in the IDF since these atrocities started. The majority are Jewish, but some are just far right extremists. All these people have committed war crimes. The Gov knows who they are and refuse to do anything about it. The hypocrisy is staggering when you consider Home Office data indicates over 100 British citizens had their citizenship revoked due to their involvement with ISIS.

Yet here we are, ignoring those committing war crimes and prosecuting people who protest peacefully or speak out about the genocide of innocent people by Israel. Please make this make sense.