Mick Hartley

The lead editorial in the Times today, on the alarming rise in antisemitism – and Rochdale:

However reminiscent this debacle, and the clumsy response to it, may be of Labour’s darkest days under Jeremy Corbyn, it would be a mistake to diagnose the problem as one confined to the fringe of left-wing politics. The truth is more disturbing. Anti-Jewish racism is on the rise across Britain, with the ongoing crisis in the Middle East lending political camouflage to the expression of antisemitic impulses that should find no place in civilised political life.

True enough, and the criticism of the appalling instances of plain old anti-Jewish racism on the left, and in universities, is spot on. What's missing though is any mention of the Islamic elephant in the room…