Have Londoners forgotten how to stand up to anti-Semites?

There are some among the tens of thousands who march through London each week who genuinely seek peace in Gaza. There are others who march because they are anti-Semites. They hate Jews and want them eradicated. They sing songs about genocide and they brandish Swastikas and sport stickers celebrating the massacre of 1,200 Jewish men, women and children by Hamas terrorists on October 7^th last year.

This is not the first time that anti-Semites have paraded their bigotry through London. But the difference between now and 1936, when Oswald Mosley led his black-shirted British Union of Fascists through the capital’s streets in what came to be known as the ‘Battle of Cable Street’, is the apathy today of ordinary Londoners.

When Mosley assembled his fascists on Royal Mint Street on the morning of Sunday, 4 October, 1936, thousands of counter-demonstrators had already gathered.