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Antisemitism has to be fought globally

The speed with which Corbyn and the hard left captured Labour is a warning to those who indulge 'The Squad' in the US

February 17, 2022 07:37
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Earlier this month, two Orthodox Jewish men were attacked with a smashed glass bottle as they closed up a shop they work at in north London. 

This vicious attack – which left both men in hospital, one with a broken nose – may not have grabbed as many international headlines as the Beth Israel synagogue siege in Colleyville Texas last month.

But it, too, is a symptom of the growing wave of antisemitism which threatens Jews across the globe.

Tragically, in the West, it is Europe – in whose bloodlands six million Jews were murdered eight decades ago – which is at the forefront of this unfolding crisis.