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The Tories are slowly realising that institutional Islamophobia might be a PR problem for them. They haven’t done anything about it for years not because they didn’t know about it, but because they calculated they could get away with it. That’s it.
We should never get into a trade-off between Islamophobia & antisemitism, but it’s hard to imagine a Shadow Cabinet minister making jokes about ultra-Orthodox Jewish clothing as Boris Johnson did about burka. He then got off scot free. Tories turned a blind eye because they could
Ultimately, it should not surprise us that the party which promoted a hostile environment for the non-white and non-British born should have cultivated a welcome environment for racists and racism at the same time
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