Mick Hartley

Alex Hearn in the JC on the cowardice that led people to go along with a small, organised mob stirring up hatred against Jews:

The huge spike in hate-crime attacks came as reports of October 7 emerged in 2023. But what made the last two and a half years remarkable was not the hatred itself but how quickly the rest of the country cooperated with it. Not because a totalitarian government told them to, but because they were so willing to go along with a small, well-organised mob. Antisemitism has become so well established over millennia that it no longer needs a state. It self-organises. The grassroots hate movement has dictated what institutions do, government policy, when we can go to our town centres and where we dine or buy coffee. No directive from above was required – the pattern is old enough to run on autopilot….

There is a war on Jews in this country and it didn’t need a Führer. It just needed a population willing to look away, a set of institutions ready to comply, and the world’s most durable prejudice.