In 1972, I was a post-grad student at Oxford when Idi Amin expelled all Asians from Uganda. Everything fell apart. I thought I’d have to quit university. Professor Hugh Blaschko, a world-famous German Jewish pharmacologist and his Quaker wife, Mary, offered me rent-free accommodation. I lived with them for seven years and grew to love them. The Nazis had murdered many of his family members. Some were in a painted family portrait in their living room. He told me what Berlin was like before and after Hitler rose to power. Those stories stay with me.

The recent attacks on Jewish people and properties and the rally against antisemitism in the UK have reminded us that antisemitism is a very light sleeper. And that British Jews are fearful. Denying that, as some do, stains and dishonours the antiracist struggle.

Just as dishonourable are political leaders who opportunistically exploit antisemitism in their power games.

What I mean is that Sir Keir Starmer’s Government recently said it would ban pro-Palestine marches if necessary. Those comments, from Home Office minister Alex Davies-Jones, came following a terrible antisemitic attack in Golders Green, where two Jewish men were........

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