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

2026-03-27 - 17:50

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...