That may be the case; I was trying to be optimistic. The subject at hand has been highly polarised, is divisive, used as a means to attack communities on either side* and many Greens have leant into it, as seen with recent party motions and a deputy leader who was justifying Oct 7th straight away. Though, Labour have previously pitched campaigns to community concerns, so any criticism of that aspect is hypocritical. And now we have Reform leaning into “the Muslims rigged it” narratives. I am fairly despondent about the state of our politics and most parties (maybe not the Lib Dems so much, though I may be wrong) have played their part.
*Typically represented by Bill Maher and Mehdi Hasan this week. Maher calling a more left Democrat a ‘minister for Palestine’, which was called out as racism by Mehdi. Which was correct of him, but many were pointing out that Mehdi had done the same to others by calling them ministers for Israel. Both no doubt think accusations against them are ‘smears’, but the similar accusation against the other is true.
