The Saturday Essay How anti-Semitism was allowed to take hold of Britain

Within hours of Hamas terrorists murdering some 1,200 Jews on Oct 7 2023, the celebrations on the streets of London began. A video circulated on social media of euphoric men waving Palestine flags and cars honking in jubilation – a week later, footage emerged of women at a pro-Palestine march wearing pictures of paragliders taped to their tops in evident support of Hamas, whose militants had notoriously used paragliders in the attack.