It’s been a demoralising week in the UK as Islamophobic rhetoric among its political elites reaches new heights. According to former home secretary Suella Braverman and Conservative MP Lee Anderson, Islamists are apparently running the country, the capital and its mayor – and by Islamists, they mean those protesting Israel’s war on Gaza. “The Islamists, the extremists and the anti-Semites are in charge now,” wrote Braverman in an op-ed for the Telegraph titled, “Islamists are bullying Britain into submission”. This ‘threat’ that these protests pose was used as justification for the chaotic sce…