Britain’s double standard in policing and politics now falls hardest on its Jews.

Another week, another hate march outside a British synagogue. This time St John’s Wood. You probably did not hear about it, the mainstream media decided Jews being harassed on their way to prayer is just not news.

The police, as ever, insisted they had no authority to restrict the mob from terrorizing Jews on their way to prayer. Slightly implausible considering that just last month the Met banned UKIP from holding a rally in Tower Hamlets because it might upset the local Muslim community. Two-tier policing is not a glitch; it is the system.

This is the new normal as former taboos have been naturalized and old tropes have returned. The distinction between anti-Zionism and antisemitism has always been fiction, but now even the pretence is gone

The shift is unmistakable: first, the police were incapable of detouring massive demonstrations from passing in front of synagogues during service on Saturdays. Then they were helpless from stopping actual calls for violence because of protected speech. Two years of open calls for violence against Jews ended exactly as such things always do, with dead Jews, on Yom Kipur in a synagogue.

People have been detained for the crime of 

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