"Standing in front of a café near the Arsenal Football Club, Jeremy Corbyn remarked one evening last week, “British politics is not what it was in late September. It has changed a lot.”

And the former leader of the Labour Party, the prime ministerial candidate in the last British election and the MP of Islington North couldn’t have been more right. The mood in British politics has indeed shifted during the last two months. Both the ruling Conservative Party or the Tories and the opposition, the Labour Party, are trying to deal with the shifting political dynamics, which have also impacted another important player, the Liberal Democrats or Lib Dems.

The British society at large has also encountered fresh questions in the last two months. A few phrases are in the air: the Liberation Movement of Palestine, Zionism, anti-Semitism, the far-left, and the far-right, etc. And the Metropolitan Police of London has also been compelled to respond to the changing scenario. Compared to the pre-October days, the surveillance on public meetings, protest marches, and rallies have tightened to a large extent.

In short, such changes are an expression of the responses of British society and politics to the anti-war campaign Britain has been witnessing for the last two months. Since the second week of October, Britain has virtually returned to the days of the movement against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan a couple of decades ago.

Almost every Saturday, hundreds of thousands of people are taking to the streets in order to oppose Israel’s military offensive in Gaza. People are also holding marches in support of Israel, albeit of a much smaller size."

https://thewire.in/world/how-the-israel-palestine-war-is-shifting-the-political-dynamics-in-britain