I was confronted with blatant Jew hate on a radio phone in

The recent far right demonstrations should worry us all. The speed, scale and organisation and the level of violence and hate they showed in their targeting of asylum seekers and mosques was deeply concerning.

About a week ago, I was asked by LBC to provide a comment on the riots. As someone who has worked on challenging anti-Muslim hate for over a decade, and who was asked by the previous Conservative government to be their national adviser on anti-Muslim hate, it was a topic I felt very comfortable speaking on.

I was happily listening away when a Muslim caller started to speak about the fear that the riots had generated within Muslim circles. He talked about how many Muslim women felt afraid to go out and how some had even talked about developing their own car sharing journeys to work. The presenter and I listened, but were both suddenly taken aback when the caller said that those who did not want Palestinian protests to continue were behind the co-ordination of the far right riots.

Immediately my antisemitism radar kicked in and I knew where he was going to take this line of argument. The presenter, Ben Kentish, also recognised who was going to get the blame, so he immediately asked the caller who he meant. He repeatedly asked this and then, about ten seconds later, out it came. The caller blamed Zionists and Israel because they wanted to break the Palestinian demonstrations and they were therefore supporting the far right riots.