Both the Mayor of London and the Prime Minister came out yesterday with the usual platitudes that follow every serious anti-Semitic incident ā that there is no place for anti-Semitism in Britain and that it will not be tolerated. What rot. We see it on our streets all the time.
The day before the ambulance attack, for example, an art exhibition in Margate, Kent, was reported to the police. The foul drawings include one of two auctioneers at Sotheby's (owned by a French-Israeli businessman) eating babies, with blood dripping from their dagger teeth.
I am at a loss to understand how anyone can deny this is the classic anti-Semitic trope of Jews as baby-eating demons. The 'artist' Matthew Collings insults our intelligence by saying 'nothing in the drawing says 'Jews' or claims Jews eat babies'.
More concerningly, the police take the same myopic stance, saying the pictures are 'criticism of the Israeli state⦠because some Israelis happen to be Jews it doesn't mean it's anti-Semitic'.
Jew-hate is now the norm. Last week, a survey revealed that one in five students would not want to share a house with a Jew. Meanwhile, calls for 'Zionist-free' towns and universities are so widespread that they are barely even reported.
Don't think that the use of the word 'Zionist' rather than 'Jew' alters the meaning.
The arson attack on ambulances run by the Jewish charity, outside a synagogue in Golders Green, is the latest nauseating marker in the acceleration of anti-Semitism in Britain.
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