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00:00The United States and the United Kingdom are facing general elections later this year.
00:09And in both countries in the run-up to these polls, we are seeing a fallout of the Israel-Hamas
00:14conflict on domestic politics.
00:16In the UK, for example, there is now data which shows that there has been a huge increase
00:21in hate crimes against Muslims since the Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October 2023.
00:28And many of those who have been targeted or who have been at the receiving end of these
00:32hate crimes that also include physical assault have been Muslim women.
00:36In the midst of this, the Conservative Party and Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister, have
00:40been under particular attack for not saying enough or doing enough to condemn Islamophobic
00:46comments made by members of their own party.
00:49Rishi Sunak, for instance, was forced to distance himself from a fellow MP, even expelling him
00:54as an MP, for Islamophobic comments that he made about London's Mayor.
00:59But instead of calling these Islamophobic comments, Rishi Sunak kind of sat on the fence.
01:04He said that what Lee Anderson said was wrong, but refused to actually dub them as Islamophobic
01:09comments.
01:10For far too long, we've seen politicians sitting on the fence when it comes to hate politics,
01:15when it comes to polarization.
01:17But the fact is that this needs to be called out very strongly, particularly by citizens.
01:23How this is going to play out ahead of the elections in the UK will be interesting to see.