by Brendan O’Neill, spiked
Synagogues are being firebombed. Jews have been murdered. Where the hell is the anger?
When does cowardice become complicity? I wondered this on Sunday morning when my bike ride through Woodcock Park in Harrow was interrupted by a vast stretch of police tape. It was jarring to see this leafy enclave with its trickling brook turned into a crime scene. But I knew two things right away: first, that the target would have been the synagogue that sits on the edge of the park; and second, that the chattering class’s response to this latest brutalising of England’s Jews would be as meek and quiet as this park normally is.
I was right on both counts. A quick Google confirmed that, overnight, the Kenton United Synagogue had been targeted for fiery destruction. A bottle containing ‘accelerant’ was hurled through a window. More simply, a synagogue was firebombed, in London, in 2026. Mercifully, the homemade device of fascist terror failed to ignite and the synagogue suffered only a little smoke damage. Then came the next act in the anti-Semitic drama, the one that follows with baleful predictability every outrage against our Jewish compatriots: the snivelling, gutless silence of ‘the virtuous’.
We need to speak plainly: England’s Jews are being terrorised and the left is silent. Jews are being subjected to a campaign of fascist-style animus and so-called anti-fascists are saying fuck all. The world’s oldest racism has burst back to bloody life and ‘anti-racist’ influencers either haven’t noticed, don’t care, or they like it. How else to explain their craven self-gagging in the face of racist violence? ‘We would have hidden Jews in the attic’, these preening ‘progressive’ moralists love to say, when the only thing in their attics are Palestine flags, spare keffiyehs and placards saying ‘Zionism is cancer’.