This week saw the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, November 9-10th. Throughout Germany Jews and Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues were attacked. 91 Jews were murdered and 30,000 were arrested and later deported to the concentration camps of Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald and Dachau. 7,000 Jewish businesses were destroyed. Police and firefighters joined in the destruction.

80 years later we witness once again the rise of antisemitism right across Western Europe and in the United States, on the streets, in the media and in universities. The rise is being led, by sheer weight of numbers and volume of hate, by the left, including the British Labour Party, and so-called human rights activists such as the BDS movement, the Women’s March, Antifa, UNRWA-run schools in the Middle East and many university run groups such as the SJP. Jews marking the anniversary in Hyde Park, London were attacked.

Newspapers mostly either are silent or feed this rise, or only talk about the racism of the right, which in numbers is small compared to left wing extremists. Politicians give lip service but do nothing about it. It is the 1930s all over again.

The worry is that students at the forefront of this hate will be our leaders in a few short years. “Never again” suddenly sounds like a cry falling on deaf ears unless good people truly stand up and push back.