It should shame us that Jews live in fear in 21st-century Britain | Letters

Zaki Cooper and Susan Saffer respond to Jonathan Freedland’s article on antisemitic attacks, and John Reizenstein and Liz Fewings to an article by David Davidi-Brown Jonathan Freedland writes a timely article about the dangers facing Jews in the diaspora ( Attacks on synagogues and Jewish shops in the UK, Europe and the US don’t hurt Netanyahu. They just hurt ordinary Jews, 20 March ). Antisemitism has always been a light sleeper – and it is stirring once more in modern Britain. Modern antisemitism draws from several sources: the far right, the extreme left, often obsessively focused on Israel, and Islamist‑inspired hatred. Like a virus, it has infected a number of public-facing institutions. Continue reading...

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