Mick Hartley

Jerusalem's deputy mayor, in London to join a protest against UN Women outside Downing Street, speaks to the Telegraph:

“Woke” Left-wing activists have formed a “toxic alliance” with Islamic fundamentalists to stoke anti-Semitism in the UK, Israel’s most senior British-born politician has told The Telegraph.

In an interview, Fleur Hassan-Nahoum also branded the United Nations as “the worst” after its women’s group was accused of taking 57 days to condemn the “brutal attacks by Hamas” on Israel on Oct 7 including the rape of Israeli women.

Mrs Hassan-Nahoum, 50, the deputy mayor of Jerusalem, warned that the war in Gaza would continue for up to six more months but said she found it “difficult to believe” Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu could continue in office following the intelligence and security failures in the run-up to the Hamas attack.

Mrs Hassan-Nahoum, who was born in London and grew up in Gibraltar, flew into the UK to join a protest on Sunday against UN Women held outside Downing Street.

“The UN is awful,” she said, “They are the worst. They have all these countries that are not democracies and give them equal standing and they whitewash them. They all feel they are in a democratic system but they are all dictatorships.

“UN Women took seven weeks to call out the mass rapes and mutilation and violence against women. It is too little too late.”…

She has been appalled by the pro-Palestinian mass protests held in the UK over the past seven weeks. “People don’t understand what a dark regime lives there,” she said in reference to Hamas’s rule over Gaza. She said it was a “pawn” of Iran, which has “global ambitions”.

She said some of the UK demonstrators considered the attack on Israel as “legitimate resistance”, adding: “Anybody who thinks cutting a baby’s head off is legitimate resistance needs to have their own head examined. If this was the other way around we would never, ever condone anything like that.”

The mass protests, she said, made her “think that you guys [in the UK] have problems more than we do… What people are underestimating is the level of radicalisation among young people”.

Mrs Hassan-Nahoum said: “Why can’t they see evil for what it is and call it out. What’s going on in the UK is an attack on western liberal values.

“I am not going to paint everybody with the same brush because there are people there [on the protests], especially Arab Muslims who have grown up with sympathy for the Palestinian cause. But I don’t understand how even those Muslims celebrate the beheadings of babies and the mass rape of women.

“But the second thing I don’t understand is this toxic alliance between Islamic fundamentalism and western woke Leftism. Do they not understand what Hamas stands for or do they just hate Jews more?”

It's a good question.

She described the position taken by the hard Left in the UK against Israel as “typical anti-Semitism”, adding: “Anti-Semitism mutates into whatever the hatred of the day is. When it’s communism, Jews are communists. When it’s capitalism, Jews are capitalists. They can call it whatever they want but they are essentially anti-Semites. They have this obsession with Israel. Why don’t they criticise Assad for the half-a-million people in Syria he killed. This over obsession with Israel shows the bias, the double standards, the anti-Semitism.”

The final antisemitic twist: the now commonplace accusations of genocide turned against Israel, the land of the Jews. Genocide – the worst crime it's possible to conceive, exemplified by the Holocaust, the worst crime in human history. It's antisemitism taken to its logical conclusion.