Robert Jenrick’s critics must calm down about his Star of David idea

Is Robert Jenrick plotting to surrender our sovereignty to the Israelis? Is the Tory leadership frontrunner engaged in some nefarious scheme to plaster our ports with the flag of the Jewish State? You could be forgiven for thinking so following the swirling hysteria that greeted his comments about having the Star of David at Britain’s entry points. ‘He wants to make us an outpost of Israel!’, every time-rich radical with the Palestine flag in his social-media bio wailed online. It’s poppycock, of course.

Jenrick made his remarks at a gathering of the Conservative Friends of Israel at the Tory conference in Birmingham. Sporting a sweatshirt emblazoned with the words ‘Hamas are Terrorists’ – cue meltdown among the left’s Hamasniks – he proposed displaying a Star of David at ‘every airport and point of entry to our great country’ to show ‘we stand with Israel’. Before you knew it, fuming tweeters were conjuring up a hellish vision of Britain smothered in a foreign flag like some tragic colonial stooge.