Mick Hartley

There's the hard left, of course, and then there's the other side of this toxic mix:

Sir William Shawcross, who reviewed the government’s counter-extremism programme last year, said the failings of the Prevent scheme had allowed Hamas supporters to intimidate MPs.

He said: “I am now seriously concerned that Prevent is simply failing to challenge the pro-Hamas campaign that is running riot on our streets. In my review I explicitly warned the government that the UK Hamas support network urgently had to be confronted. Yet since then, the problem has been left to worsen.

“Prevent should use all available means to disrupt Hamas propagandists in Britain. In the current climate, Islamist ideology is being left to capture the hearts of young people. This poses a grave danger to our country.”…

A number of MPs have expressed concerns about their safety and warned that threats from “Islamist extremists” were stifling democracy.

The Conservative MP Andrew Percy criticised the police for allowing pro-Palestinian protesters to project the slogan “from the river to the sea” onto the Elizabeth Tower, which houses Big Ben, on Wednesday night. He said: “That message says no Jew is welcome in the state of Israel or in that land. This is going to continue happening because we’re not dealing with it.” [see here – MH]

Robert Jenrick, the former immigration minister, said: “We have allowed our streets to be dominated by Islamist extremists, and British Jews and others to be too intimidated to walk through central London week after week. Now we’re allowing Islamist extremists to intimidate British members of parliament. It has to stop.”