British anti-Semites are delighted by the attack on Israel

You might think the massacre of Jewish civilians will stop anti-Jewish hatred in Britain. Or, if that is too much to ask, you might think that the atrocities would at least merit a decent period of silence before normal service resumed. 

Not a bit of it. This morning, Dave Rich of the Community Security Trust (CST), which monitors anti-Jewish hate crimes, was reading reports that the windows of Pita, a kosher restaurant in Golders Green, had been smashed. His first thought was that it could be a racially-motivated attack: a Jewish restaurant in a north London suburb famed for its large Jewish population. What were the odds? Slogans calling for a ‘Free Palestine’ had also appeared on a bridge on Golders Green Road.

‘Anti-Semites are getting excited by the sight of dead Jews,’ Rich told me. ‘Sorry to be blunt but I am in an uncompromising mood.