Antisemitism
We have close friends who are Orthodox Jews. They have been to Church with us and we have gone with them to Synagogue. In recent years our conversations have brought out ongoing sadness in the departure of several of their Jewish friends to Israel as a result of feeling at the sharp end of growing anti-semitism in the UK. In one of his last ‘Thoughts of the Day’ on BBC in November 2019 the late Rabbi Jonathan Sacks (above with the Queen) said: ‘A few days ago, two Jewish children were sitting with their parents in a train on the London Underground when a man came up to them and for almost twenty minutes harangued them with antisemitic abuse. Someone intervened but was threatened with violence. Then a young woman confronted the man, and calmly told him what he was doing was wrong. This distracted him and saved the day. It was a heroic act. The hero was a young Muslim woman wearing a hijab… That we in Britain should still be talking about antisemitism, Islamophobia, or racism at all, i