Tony Blair Says the Left Has to End Its “Unholy Alliance” With Islamists to Stamp Out Antisemitism

Tony Blair says “progressive” politicians are dodging Left-wing antisemitism because tackling it would mean confronting their movement’s “unholy alliance” with hardline Islamists. The Mail has the story.

The former prime minister said that figures on the Left are failing to confront extremists who see all Jews as supporters of Israel and the Netanyahu regime and therefore “fair game” for violence and intimidation in the wake of the Israeli war in Gaza.

His intervention comes after an arson attack that destroyed four Jewish community ambulances in Golders Green, North London, last week.

Sir Tony, who is now involved with Donald Trump’s Board of Peace initiative, said that while people were free to criticise Israel for its actions in killing thousands, they were failing to criticise the Hamas terror attack which triggered the war, and the group’s actions during the fighting.

Writing for CBS chief executive Bari Weiss’s the Free Press blog, he said: “The problem is that, under pressure from party activists and parts of the Muslim community, many progressive politicians who do sincerely reject antisemitism are not making these arguments, and failing to take head-on this literally ‘unholy alliance’ between parts of the Left and Islamists in our own societies whose ideology leads inexorably to antisemitism.

“Because failure to do so creates the climate in which, even if antisemitism is not explicitly condoned, it flourishes.”

He also warned that “without a challenge to the ideology that encourages antisemitism, while clothing it in indignation at the human cost of war, incidents like the one with the ambulances will continue to the shame of our society”.

Worth reading in full.