Want to know what kind of country you live in? You live in a country in which there are more than 300 antisemitic incidents a month. Three-hundred. Every month. Last year, there were 80 incidents on Yom Kippur alone, including the Islamist attack on Heaton Park synagogue in Manchester which resulted in the deaths of Melvin Cravitz and Adrian Daulby.

Anyone who still needs a wake-up call about antisemitism is in a civilisational coma

On a day Jews spend in fasting and prayer to ask God’s forgiveness for their sins, a day when you would be hard-pressed to encounter a Jew, still the murder and the libels and the intimidation flow. Antisemites never take a day off; they are the most productive sector of the British economy.

Last year, there were 217 cases of property destruction, including damage to Jewish homes, synagogues, and businesses; the tearing down of posters and memorials to the hostages held by Hamas; and the desecration of Chanukah menorahs and even Jewish cemeteries. Desecration of cemeteries.

These figures come from the latest annual report by........

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