I don’t know what to say exactly, except that this anti-Jewish crime is terrible, should never happen – let alone routinely – and it’s happening routinely near my home in north London.
On TV last night I watched my local Member of Parliament say she holds the hands of her children more tightly than before when she goes to synagogue.
This isn’t something that non-Jews can reasonably ignore – can leave to Jewish people to worry about.
If you can’t do something positive to help, please at least stop doing things that cause harm.
Nobody can point to (eg) a single isolated Tweet and say: that was the cause.
But the steady drip of casual, unfocused hatred – of the kind l’ve seen, shamefully, by people I know – does gradually yield these kinds of results.
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