The planned opening in 2024 of the Jewish Academy in Frankfurt is an important corrective to what can often seem an unending diet of worrying news. The recent conflict in Gaza led to an outpouring across Europe of Jew hate both on the streets and online. Last week we reported on the shameful extent of Holocaust denial in Hungary. The judicial system in France has allowed the killer of Sarah Halimi to escape justice. The list goes on. No country is immune from the disease of antisemitism and no country has avoided an increase in recent months — including Germany, where some of the worst recent incidents have taken place. But the story is far from one dimensional. The £29.3 million cost of the Frankfurt Jewish Academy is being met mainly by the German federal government, the state of Hesse and the City of Frankfurt — an important and symbolic commitment by the German authorities and far from the only such commitment. In Görlitz, a town on the Polish border, a former synagogue has been restored at a cost of £10.2 million. And the synagogue in Lübeck in northern Germany has had £7.2 million spent on its repair. The resurgence of antisemitism is dangerous and must be highlighted. But, as ever, the full story is complex.