“We have to be stronger than the terrorists,” Jewish French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy declared on the evening of the Brussels attacks that killed 31 people.
“It is a war that is waged by the international jihad against the rest of the world,” said Mr Lévy.
“I am sure without Brussels I wouldn't have tried to pay homage to 31 victims of barbaric acts.
He told a packed synagogue in west London that he had spoken to friends of his in Brussels earlier that evening. “I had the feeling I was talking to women and men who were in a city in a state of siege. They felt threatened in their mind and life.