By James Sorene

History is full of clever people acting stupid by softening and sanitising the words of extremists.

This hate washing has been a problem in Britain for a long time, and it is getting worse.

Adolf Hitler was helped for years by British politicians convinced he didn’t want war and didn’t mean everything he said about the Jews. This, despite his 700 page book written as early as 1925, which explained his ideas in detail. He repeated his threats in all his major speeches for years. Then his regime murdered millions of people, including 6 million Jews.

When antisemites and extremists speak about their violent intent, we should take them at their word and act accordingly.

Consider the example of Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond after a visit to Iran in 2015. Asked about the Iranian supreme leader’s repeated calls to destroy the Zionist entity (Israel) and praising chants of ‘death to Israel’, he said:........

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