That barbarous assault on Jews in Israel seven weeks ago – the most lethal attack on Jews since the Holocaust – has inspired pond-scum racists to menace British Jewry. To deface their businesses and places of worship. In some cases, to assault them.

Where is the outrage? Where is the solidarity? Where are the full-throated condemnations? I know many British Jews have been asking these questions. …

Britain is not an anti-Semitic nation. The vast majority of Brits are appalled by what is happening. While we must not shy away from the scale of the bigotry before us, nor should we catastrophise about it.

The problem is that the anti-Semites we do have clearly feel emboldened at the moment. They act as though they have been given licence. And with some reason. Indeed, our mealy mouthed elites, those with power and influence, have allowed Jew hatred to burst out of the box which any civilised society must keep it in.

[Same here in the US. Both countries have been victimized by an ancient hatred that has boiled beneath the surface on the fringes, but now appears to be mainstream thought on the Left. And the cultural and political leaders who might have enough clout to fight back are more interested in pandering to the mobs than in pushing them back to the fringes. — Ed]