Repercussions from the “Unite the Kingdom” rally in the center of London, led mainly by anti-immigration activist Tommy Robinson, continue to echo on and offline. Equally striking is the media blackout, not merely of the march, one of the largest in recent British memory, but of Robinson’s politicized public relations campaign, crowned by his quasi-official visit last month to Israel.

The speed at which information and disinformation now travel seems to bring every prediction ever closer. The ingredients for discontent and social unrest in the United Kingdom are being stirred and heaped upon at a pace that ought to draw, at the very least, the attention and, at most, the concern of every legislator and social leader.

Robinson’s messaging encapsulates a societal weariness and frustration with the incompetence of the political elite in the United Kingdom. It continues to practice blatant institutional nepotism in a bid to manage the utterly ungovernable state of affairs born of decades of inconsistent immigration policies and of the reckless expectation that the public will passively accept the steady degradation of their towns and cities.

The United Kingdom is willingly trading its status as a cosmopolitan and integrated nation for a cauldron of multiple ethno-national conflicts disguised as “multiculturalism.”

I witnessed this unease firsthand in August 2024. During an academic stay at Oxford University, staff burst into a seminar at St. Catherine’s College to warn the contingent of professors and attendees to take care when leaving campus and avoid certain parts of the city, as a popular uprising was underway. We were also advised to refrain from displaying any symbols of religious affiliation. I thought: What kind of uprising could be happening in the city where Harry Potter was filmed? The answer was sobering: British citizens, acting in an organized fashion, had taken justice into their own hands in a predominantly Muslim neighborhood, in response to the utter inaction of the police, the judiciary and the government in the face of repeated cases of rape, violence, robbery and other crimes committed by members and groups within the Islamic community.

The incident was not an isolated episode but part of a wider pattern. Britain’s cities are changing in ways that many in Westminster prefer not to see. Districts once celebrated for their civic pride and architectural heritage are now scarred by mistrust, parallel communities and a palpable sense of insecurity. The police, fearful of being accused of prejudice, often withdraw altogether. It is in this vacuum that vigilante justice emerges: dangerous, unpredictable and always tragic.

At the same time, we see institutions like Oxford substituting science with tribal sloganeering. Countless universities are inviting Palestinian terrorists to speak on Zionism, Al Jazeera journalists to lecture on Israel and Russia Today correspondents to opine on the West. They denounce genocide while supporting the murder of all Jews. They claim to defend LGBTQ+ rights while championing ideologies that would execute gay people in public. They weep for the oppressed while inviting oppressors to speak on campuses. These institutions have traded critical thinking for fashionable activism and the impartial objectivity of the scientific method for ideological purges.

The Oct. 7 atrocities have ruptured the facade of Western liberalism. The rise of conservative movements and leaders reflects a growing rejection of woke-Islamist collusion. Much of the United Kingdom, Europe and the West, in general, remains in denial. The West’s failure to confront Islamist radicalization will inevitably trigger a nativist backlash, with Jews again caught in the crossfire. Already, European citizens are growing weary of seeing their universities overtaken, monuments defaced, founding fathers insulted and their values undermined.

Meanwhile, Islamism pervades in the West, infiltrating public discourse and aligning with leftist movements, which paradoxically defend a totalitarian ideology that opposes democracy, human rights, gender equality and secularism. An utter ideological crisis with so-called progressives unwittingly enabling a movement responsible for mass casualties in Madrid, Barcelona, Paris, London, Brussels and beyond. Interpol reports more than 100 jihadist attacks in Europe since 2010, underscoring the need to confront this existential threat head-on.

After two years of domestic vandalism, rallies and media blood libels, the Jewish festival of Yom Kippur laid bare the true meaning of the slogan “globalize the intifada” as two Jews lay lifeless in pools of blood outside the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation in Manchester, England. The late Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel remarked that “what begins with the Jews never ends with the Jews.” The hatred that first manifests upon the Jewish people later seeps in all directions.

What do leaders and lawmakers expect now? Do they believe that average citizens will continue tolerating the exponential deterioration of their public safety, with no-go areas, massacres at synagogues and Christmas markets, explosions in train stations, stabbings at festivals and an economy strained by supporting those who are unwilling to integrate or contribute to society?

In May, I shared the podium with British journalist, author and political commentator Douglas Murray when I was invited to give a lecture on antisemitism on university campuses as part of the annual conference of the European Jewish Association in Madrid. Beyond the eloquence of his speech and the words we exchanged during our encounter, I cannot stop thinking about what he recounted of his experiences witnessing and engaging with Israeli society, particularly amid ongoing conflict; it’s something that can only be understood as social and cultural resilience.

As a Western powerhouse, will the United Kingdom have the cultural and social resilience to address its crisis? Will it have the conviction to empower voices within the Islamic civilization that advocate for reform, maturity and integration into the international community, instead of emboldening groups and parties that foster civilizational clashes and do not share the idea of separation of religion and state? Above all, will it be able to stabilize the social unrest of a citizenry that feels abandoned in the face of governmental and academic bodies infected with atrocious moral relativism and double standards?

Like the Israel that Murray invokes, the United Kingdom has stood alone in the face of adversity before, emerging triumphantly. Let us hope this time will be no different.

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