Why don’t anti-racists care about anti-Semitism?

Where have all the anti-racists gone? You couldn’t move for anti-racists in recent years. They thundered from their newspaper pulpits about the evils of ‘white privilege’. They were in schools, universities, workplaces, re-educating the throng in racial correct-speak. They loudly wrung their hands over Brexit, and us dim gammon who voted for it, warning that leaving the EU would unleash a 1930s-style hate fest.

They colonised football: every match came with a BLM knee-taking ritual and finger-wagging warnings about racial prejudice. They hit the streets, hollering ‘Stand up to racism!’ and ‘Silence is violence!’. They saw racism absolutely everywhere. In every nook of society, every innocent utterance. Remember when Sarah Vine was hauled over the coals for saying she had a ‘niggling’ feeling about Meghan Markle? Or when Lady Hussey was cancelled for asking someone: ‘Where are you from?’.

Yet now they’re nowhere to be seen. Pooft – the professional racism-hunters have vanished without a trace.