Anti-Semitism is being normalised in British life

BCF : In 1144, the murder of a tanner’s apprentice in Norwich was blamed on French-speaking Jews, birthing a shameful tradition of blood libel that ascribed to Jews a penchant for murdering children.

As the unknown person who recently scrawled graffiti outside my house put it: “think Gaza”. Are the Israelis trying to kill infants? Of course not. They understand that every death is a victory for Hamas in the international arena.

The ease with which so many reach for Jewish malevolence to explain the Palestinian tragedy has roots reaching back to East Anglia. But no longer do the good people of Norwich throw Jews down wells. Rather, the local council equivocated this week about the public Chanukah lighting.

These anti-Israel protesters are obsessed with the Holocaust.

Shameful behavior in London today.
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Foremost in their minds – these were the claims of officials and who are we to doubt them – was a single concern. What if the candelabra was vandalised? One might have thought that this was a matter for the police. Is it “inclusive” for minorities to hide for their own safety? And if officers could not be persuaded to protect Jews, I’d take the threat of vandalism above the life of the medieval Marranos, forced to observe Judaism in secret.

But the council failed to buck up. Eventually, after pressure from The Jewish Chronicle, officials decided to hold the celebrations, but in a less prominent location and for one night rather than the traditional eight. So the observances of the world’s oldest monotheism were rewritten at the stroke of a municipal pen.

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