“Where are the marches or placards of solidarity with Britain’s Jews?”.

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It is something that I hear from Jewish friends and colleagues, who feel that they have been left behind, discarded and left to fend for themselves by other groups and communities.

The lack of solidarity is visibly marked and telling, in an age where we talk about protecting the human rights of people and respecting their identities.

It seems that many in the anti-racist groups and organisations look the other way on protecting these basic rights when Jews in Britain are attacked.

There is a quiet discomfort in parts of British public life when the issue of antisemitism within sections of British Muslim communities is raised.

It is often softened, redirected, or submerged beneath well-meaning but ultimately inadequate calls for “more dialogue” and “greater interfaith understanding.”

That instinct, however, is no........

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