The Islamo-left is on the march across Britain

The next time someone asks what we mean when we say ‘Islamo-left’, I’m going to show them footage from yesterday’s protest in Whitechapel in East London. What a morally suicidal schlep that was. What an unholy union of witless leftists and menacing Islamists. ‘Refugees welcome here!’, cried the granola-fed grads of the limp-wristed left. ‘Allahu Akbar!’, barked the masked mob of religious hotheads. Rarely has the lethal idiocy of the left’s bed-hopping with Islamism been so starkly exposed.

This assembly of godless genderfluids and Koran-botherers was ostensibly a march against UKIP. That knackered old party had hoped to hold its own protest in Whitechapel yesterday. It was clearly a provocation: they targeted Whitechapel precisely because it has a large Muslim population. A Ukipper’s wet dream is to wang on about ‘Islamist invaders’ and the need for ‘remigration’ as Bangladeshi Brits look on with alarm. A wind-up masquerading as a march. The Metropolitan Police, fearing ‘serious disorder’, put the kibosh on it and told UKIP to do their wailing elsewhere.

So they went to Whitehall instead. Around 75 of them gathered outside the London Oratory with their flags and their hernias. And Whitechapel was left to the Islamo-left, to that seething mob of plummy radicals and gruff Islamists who love to scream blue murder about ‘Zionists’. And there you have it: in the eyes of the Met it is an offence against decency to let a handful of Ukippers traipse through Whitechapel, but it is absolutely fine to surrender those same streets to columns of black-clad fanatics raging against ‘Zionist scum’. The hypocrisy stinks to heaven.

The anti-UKIP counter-demo in Whitechapel was not an anti-racist march. We all know it. The dogs in the street know it. It was an orgy of intolerance dolled up as tolerance. It was a display of Islamist arrogance wearing the thin veil of ‘anti-racism’ to fool the overeducated idiots of the bourgeois left. Well, if they’ll believe someone with a cock can be a lesbian, they’ll believe Islamist fanatics who dream of annihilating the Jewish homeland are anti-racists.

For those of us who still have a quaint attachment to the virtues of reason and secularism, it was a sickening spectacle. Mobs of men in black masks hollered Islamist slogans in a distinctly menacing manner. They denounced ‘Zionist scum’ and darkly promised to hound them ‘off our streets’. They yelled ‘From the river to the sea’ (translation: destroy the Jewish homeland) and sang the praises of ‘our martyrs’ (translation: the Jew-killers of Hamas). And all the while, the pricks of the new left who think it’s bigotry to say ‘he’ about a fella in a dress just stood there smiling.

Anyone who says ‘They were just criticising Zionism’ is going to get slapped. Our crisis is too pressing for pussy-footing. When the devotees of a hardcore species of Islam take to the streets to fume about ‘Zionists’, we know who they mean. We know they don’t mean people like me – Gentiles who support Jewish nationhood. It’s not the likes of us they want to drive out of Britain, 1290-style. It’s them. Those Zios. The kippah people. Are we really going to do that dumb dance of saying, ‘Criticising Zionism is not the same thing as hating Jews’? Stop it. I’m tired.

Here’s my question: why is it racism for Ukippers to dream of expelling ‘Islamist invaders’ from the UK, but anti-racism for Islamists and their posh simps on the left to agitate for the expulsion of ‘Zionists’ from Britain’s streets? I agree UKIP’s chants were racist. To brand Muslims ‘Islamist invaders’ and demand their ‘remigration’ is vile bigotry. But why can’t the left say the same about the Zio-bashing that we all know is Jew-bashing? Far from calling that out, they snuggle up to it. They fancy themselves as the righteous enemies of racism when in truth they are the obsequious fluffers of Islamist bigotry.

It’s very simple: if you happily march with men in masks who dream of driving ‘Zios’ from our society, then you have thrown your lot in with Jew hatred. You are complicit in the cultivation of a hostile environment for England’s Jews. Here’s a new moral test for everyone holding a public event in the UK: is it safe for Jews to attend? We all know the answer for that Villa / Maccabi clash in a couple of weeks’ time: No. And we all know the answer for the ‘anti-racist’ demo in Whitechapel this weekend: Fuck, no. No Jew in their right mind would go near a gathering at which fantasies of their expulsion from Britain and dreams of destroying their homeland were being noisily and arrogantly entertained.

This is why it is so gross to hear apologists for the demo use words like ‘diversity’ and ‘tolerance’. Listen, it is not diverse if Jews can’t come. And it is not tolerant if people are covering their faces so that they might safely scream about ‘Zionist scum’. Some have even compared the Whitechapel demo to the Battle of Cable Street. How dare you. That working-class uprising was about defending the Jews of the East End from the animus of bigoted hysterics. Yesterday’s Islamo-left march did the opposite – it exposed Jews to yet more invective and made clear the East End is now a no-go zone for them. It was a reversal of the great gains of Cable Street.

There was a striking moment on this Islamo-left march. A clip doing the rounds shows one of the left muppets saying to an Islamist, ‘We’re on the same side, bruv’. The reply is instant and cutting: ‘No we’re not.’ When will leftists learn what a colossal folly it is to align themselves with fundamentalists who are suspicious of secularism, hateful of homosexuals, dismissive of women and furious about Jews? Did they learn nothing from the Iranian Revolution, when Iranian leftists sided with the Islamist insurgents against the Shah only to find themselves up against the wall once ‘God’s Army’ had taken power?

The left is marching with its own gravediggers. With people who would happily outlaw homosexuality and condemn women to a benighted life in misogynist garments. What could possibly unite the blue-hairs of the middle-class left with these black-masked Islamists? That’s the truly chilling question. Because the answer is this: a deranged hatred for ‘Zios’ and their nation. This has got to be the most objectionable and opportunistic alliance of bigots in the modern era. But the glue of Jew hatred won’t last forever. Eventually the Islamo-left will fall out. And looking at yesterday’s march, I know who’d win that scrap.

Brendan O’Neill is spiked’s chief political writer and host of the spiked podcast, The Brendan O’Neill Show. Subscribe to the podcast here. His latest book – After the Pogrom: 7 October, Israel and the Crisis of Civilisation – is available to order on Amazon UK and Amazon US now. And find Brendan on Instagram: @burntoakboy