Yet now badges with a red hands motif are sported by Hollywood stars on the red carpet – just one instance of the normalisation of antisemitism as radical chic.
“Clothes maketh the man,” said Erasmus.
So what does it tell us that T-shirts emblazoned “Palestine Action” are being purchased online by members of British society?
They are endorsing group that is now proscribed under the Terrorism Act.
Note the appalling history of Palestine Action: a campaign of destruction across Britain.
Jewish-owned businesses in London and Manchester have been badly vandalised.
Factories responsible for valuable British jobs have been repeatedly attacked.
Royal Air Force aircraft engines were irreparably damaged at Brize Norton.
The shocking security breach must have delighted Britain’s enemies.
As for the notion that these are non-violent protests, remember the police officers injured with sledgehammers in Bristol last year.
Anyone with an iota of decency would be ashamed to be associated with this group.
Yet a senior academic at Cambridge University was recently seen in a shirt saying “We Are All Palestine Action”.
Do those wearing these T-shirts understand what they are endorsing: an ever-escalating threat to the Jewish community and indeed British society?
Here is today’s version of the emperor’s new clothes.
Those who wear them leave their abject moral state exposed.
