The sacking of Suella Braverman as Home Secretary on 13 November was a watershed moment in modern British politics; the last British conservative politician has fallen, causing one to feel that we are at the beginning of a post-Jewish London. It’s not what was expected in 2019, when the Conservative party received its second-largest majority in history. Certainly, we live in strange times when the most dangerous thing a Conservative politician can be is conservative.

Braverman has been a genuine conservative; a Brexit supporter, a critic of radical gender ideology and a strong advocate for the need for immigrants to integrate into British society. She has provided the woke establishment with plenty of motivation to defenestrate her. However, it was her defence of British Jews on Armistice Day, coupled with her commitment to the UK-Rwanda asylum scheme, that was the tipping point.

By now, we are all too familiar with the horrifying display of antisemitism that is engulfing the world. The ground zero for antisemitism is university campuses. That has been clear for some time. In terms of precise location, tragically London, the once magnificent capital that fought off and defeated Nazism, is now a focus of antisemitism.

A worldwide audience is seeing incidents of antisemitism in London being reported daily. The damage this is doing to London’s reputation is fast becoming irreversible. The Babylon Bee perfectly summarised how this looks from afar with their recent post – it featured a photograph of a London pro-Palestine rally, stating the Nazis had finally seized London.

Braverman has been a staunch supporter of Israel and critic of the now weekly pro-Palestinian marches in London, calling them ‘hate marches’. On 8 November, 2023 she had the guts to call out publicly what is now painfully obvious, and disturbing, to the whole world – that the London Metropolitan police play favourites when policing pro-Palestine rallies. Writing for the Times, Braverman identified that fact. Days later, Prime Minister Rishi Sunack sacked her. In a letter addressed to the Prime Minister in response, Braverman accused Sunak of failing to ‘rise to the challenge posed by the increasingly vicious antisemitism and extremism displayed on our streets since Hamas’s terrorist atrocities of 7th October’.

On no occasion have these pro-Palestine rallies been more alarming than those which were held on Armistice Day. This is a sacred secular day, not just in Britain, but for many around the world who can never pay back the debt we owe our ancestors. In the lead-up to this year’s Armistice Day, the Prime Minister himself issued a statement warning of the potential for unrest and for the Cenotaph to be desecrated. That the Prime Minister of Britain would have to issue a statement referring to the British public’s ‘right to remember, in peace and dignity’ is indicative the authorities are not in control.

Little attempt has been made to discuss Braverman’s sacking in the context of the second Holocaust we are now living through. Instead, we’re flooded with news stories featuring an awkward-looking David Cameron. Government elites are in their own bubble, apparently unaware and uncaring about the huge cultural shift Braverman’s sacking signals.

There hasn’t been one iota of effort put into window-dressing Braverman’s sacking as anything other than a coup against the will of the British people. The latter clearly showed in 2019 that they wanted not just Brexit, but a return to conservative values; these points were made in Braverman’s letter to the Prime Minister. So much for democracy.

One of the most deeply held Western values post-World War Two has been ‘Never Again’. Similar to the ousting of Braverman, the Victorian Liberal party expelled Victorian MP Moria Deeming when she upheld the correct definition of what a woman was. Both conservative parties are actively punishing politicians who uphold traditional Western values.

A post-Jewish London is only possible within the much larger picture of a London that is now post any semblance of the upholding of traditional British values; the very values the Brits entrusted the Conservative party with in 2019.

If it was still a London of British values, the Jews would be safe and Braverman applauded for being the one who stood up to protect them. This current Conservative government is guilty of the greatest betrayal of its voter base in modern times. The ‘Greatest Generation’ has certainly been betrayed.

When you think of pure guts, you think of London during the Blitz. ‘Keep calm & carry on’; but it is difficult to stay calm at the present. As one fellow Aussie said to me on hearing the news of Braverman’s firing, ‘The Brits have lost it.’

Keir Starmer is calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. Should Starmer become Britain’s next prime minister, as he is largely tipped to, it is not clear how the situation in London, indeed all of the UK, will improve for Jews. The history of antisemitism in the UK Labour party gives no hope.

Braverman herself represents so much that is attractive about the modern West. She has described herself as a ‘child of the British Empire’. The daughter of immigrants, she took her oath as MP on the Buddhist Dhammapada. Braverman’s husband is Jewish and she has family members serving in the Israeli Defense Forces. When first appointed Home Secretary in 2022, she was a new mother with two toddlers. Typically for a conservative woman, she received none of the fanfare and adulation Jacinda Ardern did for this juggling act. If she was on the left, Braverman would be a poster child for feminists and on fashion magazine covers.

The Jews, who have given us Einstein, Jackie Mason and the Marx brothers, are being driven out of the capital of my ancestors. It is a tragedy. History is destined to be repeated by those who choose to forget it. I dread to imagine the culture and scientific loss a post-Jewish London will bring to the world.

Like the first one, this second Holocaust is showing the world very clearly just why the Jews so desperately need Israel.