UK Tory leader: Anti-Israel marches are ‘carnivals of hatred,’ incite against Jews

Kemi Badenoch, leader of the UK’s Conservative party, says pro-Palestinian marches in the country have become “carnivals of hatred directed at the Jewish homeland.”

Speaking in Manchester days after a deadly terror attack on a synagogue, Badenoch says that attack “was not just an attack on British Jews, it was an attack on all of us.”

Then, she says that, in the spirit of the Day of Atonement, Britain should consider where it has gone wrong, and that one mistake was tolerating rhetoric at anti-Israel demonstrations that are most plausibly understood as calls for violence against Jews.

“You hear it in the asinine slogans; you hear it in ‘from the river to the sea,’ as if the homes and the lives of millions of Jewish people should be erased,” she says.

“You hear it in ‘globalize the intifada,’ which means nothing at all if it doesn’t mean targeting Jewish people for violence,” she continues to applause.

“We have tolerated this in our country for too long, and we have tolerated the radical Islamist ideology that seeks to threaten not only Jews, but all of us, of all faiths and none, who want to live in peace.”

“We must now draw a line and say that in Britain you can think what you like, and within the bounds of the law you can say what you like, but you have no right to turn our streets into the theaters of intimidation, and we will not let you do so anymore!” she says.