Zoe STRIMPEL

As necessary as the cause of ending racist police violence is, it hasn’t taken long for the Black Lives Matter protests to become a breeding ground for the utmost nastiness – including a pogrom in the Jewish district of Fairfax, Los Angeles, and other violent action carried about by the frenzied anti-capitalist anarchists who now seem to be running the show.

For those still in doubt over the dire types leading the Black

Lives Matter movement’s British arm, the biography of Joshua Virasami, a key leader, is illuminating.

Ironically, Mr Virasami only seems marginally concerned with actual black lives. He spends most of his time frothing at the mouth about Israel and capitalism. He is violently in favour of defunding the police. He is obsessed with climate change as a form of racism, and was one of those who chained themselves at City

He is obsessed with climate change as a form of racism

Airport in 2016. He has rioted in Brixton despite being from Hounslow. This charming gentleman has also let it be known that in his view: “Anti-racism is anti-capitalist, and vice versa. There are no two ways around it.”

And last month, when Churchill’s statue was boarded up in Parliament Square, he wrote: “Good riddance to an evil man.”

There is almost no rabblerousing violence in the name of anti-racism or anti-capitalism that Mr Virasami has refrained from. To say that he is committed to his cause is fair. To say that this cause is nothing but anti-Semitic, anti-Western thuggery is even fairer.