It is not even a week since that horrific act of violence against Jews in Golders Green, and what is the left calling for? The right to agitate for more violence against Jews. The right to beat the streets hollering for ‘intifada’. And what is ‘intifada’ other than the infliction of harm and horror on Jews by militant outfits such as Hamas?

Their wilful blindness to the toxic fallout of their rallies is maddening

Their wilful blindness to the toxic fallout of their rallies is maddening

Even by the iffy standards of the keffiyeh left, it’s been a tawdry spectacle. The speed with which the Golders Green debate went from being about the right of Jews to live in safety to the right of the Islamo-left to yell for intifada has been mindblowing. This is the lethal narcissism of Israelophobia, where the right of bored socialists and their Islamist chums to scream blue murder about the Jewish nation takes precedence over the right of British Jews to a little peace and quiet.

No sooner had Keir Starmer proposed a winding down of the left’s soulless trudges against the Jewish state than the keffiyeh classes were up in arms. ‘What about our rights?!’, they wailed, no doubt to the eye-rolling of Jews across these isles who can’t even attend synagogue without security guards on hand. Imagine Jewish mums and........

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