I am the one with the big personality around the Friday night dinner table. I have spent my whole life being told to ‘stop it with the dramatics’ as I sip my chicken soup. A day does not go by where my family – proud Jewish Brits – long for me to lower my voice or roll their eyes at my overexaggerating tendencies. So you can only imagine my horror when my friend – one of the most rational people in our social circle – said exactly what I was thinking: that Britain is no longer safe for British Jews. If Green party leader Zack Polanski made it to Number 10, my friend said that he would leave immediately. He told me in candid detail that he would stay in Israel until a visa was accepted for him to go to America. I was startled. Is the situation for the Jewish community really that bad? The latest attack in Golders Green shows that my friend – and many other British Jews – are right to be afraid.

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When Jeremy Corbyn was leader of the Labour Party, members of the Jewish community started to explore the idea of leaving the UK. Who could blame them when faced with the realities of living as a Jew in 21st Century Britain? A lot of my non-Jewish friends were somewhat surprised when I told them that it was standard protocol that synagogues are heavily guarded. Being educated in two Church of England schools, I had the luxury of assimilated protection from outside threats in that regard, although I still felt the danger when going to my place of worship. But when I think........

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