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Former British Home Secretary Suella Braverman speaks during the National Conservatism conference in Brussels, April 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

LONDON — Britain’s failure to speedily ban large-scale pro-Palestinian “hate marches” in the wake of the October 7, 2023, Hamas atrocities has contributed to rising antisemitism in the country, the UK’s former Home Secretary has claimed.

In an interview with The Times of Israel, Suella Braverman also labeled then-prime minister Rishi Sunak a “coward” for failing to back her tough stance on the weekly demonstrations that brought central London to a halt.

“The marches now have been going on for three years. There’s no sign of them really abating … because they know that they’ve beaten the authorities,” said Braverman, who defected to Nigel Farage’s right-wing Reform UK party earlier this year.…