This past weekend, while diplomats finalized the terms of a memorandum meant to end the war between Israel, the United States, and Iran, roughly a thousand protesters faced off outside a synagogue in London. By the time police finished making arrests on Sunday, fourteen people had been detained on charges ranging from violent disorder to common assault, after a demonstration the Board of Deputies of British Jews called an act of intimidation against the Jewish community.

The diplomats’ own signing ceremony, set for Friday in Switzerland, will be treated as a milestone: a war with a beginning, a middle, and now, perhaps, an end. For fifteen years I have worked to identify and preserve the unmarked graves of Jews murdered across Eastern Europe, places where, on paper, the war ended generations ago. That work has taught me one thing: violence against Jews does not follow the calendar diplomats keep. States make peace. The war against Jewish communities does not pause for treaties.

That synagogue was not an isolated target. It was........

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