SARAH VINE: London, filled with bright autumn sunshine, echoed with cries of hatred and the sound of helicopters.
Yesterday, London played host to the worst of them, from Tommy Robinson and his gangs of xenophobic thugs to pockets of openly pro-Hamas supporters effectively celebrating the massacre of Israeli civilians even as they lament the desperate plight of the citizens of Gaza.
How utterly wrong. Yesterday was Armistice Day. A day when we honour the victims of conflict and give thanks for our freedom. And yet it is they, not the silent, sane majority, who now increasingly set the agenda. All our lives, it seems, are now dictated to by this deranged minority. The idea that the way to resolve any of the issues related to weeks of protests – the tearing down of posters of kidnapped Israelis, the threats to British Jews, the open encouragement from certain quarters for the actions of Hamas – is for a bunch of tooled-up thugs to storm the Cenotaph is clearly insane.
As soon as Robinson and his crew showed up, social media was alive with renewed calls for the sacking of Suella Braverman for voicing her worries – worries that she may have been unwise to express in a newspaper article, but which many people nevertheless share – about the police's handling of some of the worst elements of these marches.
But make no mistake, the past few weeks have seen some very ugly anti-Semitic – not to mention anti-British – views expressed openly on our streets.
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