Militants marching their hate into our top institutions says Stephen Pollard

There has been mystification at their failure to act over calls by some protesters for jihad and intifada.But there was a clue as to why at the weekend, when video emerged of Attiq Malik, an adviser to the police on hate crime.

Until Sunday, when he was removed from the post, Malik was the chairman of the London Muslim Communities Forum, which the Metropolitan Police describes as a "strategic advisory body".

It is meant to "inform and help shape police policy and procedure at a strategic level". At the very least, you might expect its members - let alone its chair - would be upstanding citizens who merit a role advising the police.

But if you did, you'd be disappointed, because Malik was caught on camera leading chants of "from the river to the sea" - widely interpreted as a demand for the elimination of Israel - at a pro-Palestinian rally in 2001. He has also attacked what he calls "global censorship by the Zionists".

And guess where he has been over the past month? In the Met's operations room observing the protests. Or take Amina Ahmed, the "Met Police Leadership Program Facilitator" who posted on social media that anyone who supported Israel responding to Hamas's terror attack should be investigated for "inciting hatred against Muslims.That should be investigated as extremism".

Malik's presence should surprise no one. Operating far below the radar of public scrutiny, bodies like the London Muslim Communities Forum have mushroomed in recent years, and not just inside the police.

Across key institutions, from the Crown Prosecution Service to the BBC, the NHS and Whitehall, such advisory bodies are now entirely normal. They are stuffed with left-wing activists who wear the hat of "community representatives".

his - as well as the appointment of such people to staff roles - is part of what was described by 1960s student revolutionary Rudi Dutschke as the long march through the institutions, a strategy to change society not through open revolution but by quietly and surreptitiously taking over professions and institutions.

We may have had a Conservative government for 13 years but it has been useless at tackling this form of hidden political influence. The mere idea of having such "community forums" is itself an example of the success of this long march has been.

A generation ago, for example, police were guided by the law. Now they believe they also need to be guided by these supposedly communal bodies, almost always captured by the last people the police should be asking for help.

Take the CPS which, as one senior government source put it to me recently, is now "stuffed with problematic people who know how to march through institutions".

A typical example is Mohammed Kozbar, a member of the CPS's "scrutiny panel" for hate crime. Kozbar is deputy secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain, which has been boycotted by every government since 2009.

Kozbar has praised the founder of Hamas as a "holy warrior" and last year described Egyptian imam Omar Abdelkafi as a "beloved"

preacher when he hosted the iman at his mosque. Abdelkafi quotes from the notorious antisemitic forgery the Protocols of the Elders of Zion as if it was true, and prays to "liberate the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem of the filth of the Jews".

Likewise, a report by think tank Policy Exchange shows how trans ideologues captured the CPS.

The prosecuting authority has been "unduly influenced", the report claims, by charity Stonewall, which has led to it adopting a "highly partisan ideological approach based on gender identity theory".

The CPS was until 2021 a member of Stonewall's Diversity Champions scheme - an archetype of institutional capture - which demands organisations implement its radical trans ideology. Public bodies and businesses queued up to join, believing it made them liberal and inclusive, when all they were really doing is undermining Western liberal values.

The unchecked protesters whose anti-Semitism has stained our streets shows where this leads - with hatred given a platform, while the forces of law and order stand by and watch.

Our liberalism has been cynically and skilfully exploited. Unless we get a grip on what is happening and respond, the portents are deeply worrying.

'Our liberal ideals have been cynically exploited against us'