Dead Jews should not be the price of belonging. And yet, time and again throughout history, it is only in our mourning that the world embraces us.

This evening, as I switched my phone back on after Yom Kippur, together with hundreds of others, I discovered the horror. A terror attack here in the UK, on the holiest day of the Jewish year. The numbness was immediate. Silence felt like the only possible response: the silence of shock, of disbelief, of grief too deep for words. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families who have lost loved ones, with those who are wounded, and with all whose lives have been shattered.

But silence cannot last forever. At some point, words must be spoken. For this was not only an attack on individuals, not only on Jews, but on the very fabric of British life. It has revealed, in blood, what many of us have felt for some time: that the atmosphere in this country has grown increasingly hostile,........

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