By Lord Walney

“I don’t give a **** about the Jewish community”.

These are the charming words of a protestor on the streets of London mere hours after an Islamist terrorist went on a murderous rampage at a synagogue in Manchester. They felt so confident expressing their detestable opinion that they shared it with a journalist from a major national newspaper.

They even provided their full name and age.

The warning signs have been blinking red for years as the Jewish community has been subjected to a relentless barrage of Jew hate. Of course, this predates Hamas' October 7 rampage, but expressions of hatred for Jews, violent rhetoric and physical violence have now erupted from the shadowy fringes and entered into the mainstream.

In an almost fanatic fashion, hundreds of thousands of people have attended weekly protests against Israel over the last two years. It is particularly troubling that so many well-intentioned ordinary folk have been prepared to repeatedly march alongside hard-left rabble rousers and Islamist extremists.

Protestors have collectively called for violent attacks on Jews (“globalise the intifada”) and the destruction of the world’s only Jewish state (“from the river to the sea”). Flags of terror groups and celebration of Jihad have been........

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