Now it’s Niall Ferguson: The resurfacing of anti-Semitism in Britain. I fear that if they think others can be reasoned out of their hatred of Jews, they have no sense of the history of anti-Semitism. For some, it comes with their mother’s milk. This is what Ferguson has to say.

Bashing Israel appears to be an effective way of mobilizing Muslim voters, who account for roughly half the electorate in Bradford West. Nor is Bradford the only place in Britain where this goes on.

When you put it that way, what become clear is that this is a problem that will only get worse and for which no solution comes to anyone’s mind. The attitude to Christians is, of course, no better with the only difference of significance being there are more Christians than Jews in the UK so they cannot be as blatant about what they really think.