Roger

Another day, another antisemitic attack in the UK. Ambulances belonging to Jewish ambulance service Hatzola were fire bombed in Golders Green, London's most well known Jewish neighborhood. At a kids' birthday party yesterday, hours before this happened, I was speaking with another Jewish parent. The topic of conversation was (as it always is) "Where is the red line?" Meaning: at what point do you say, right, darling, time to pack the bags? Is this it? The ambulances firebombed for merely being associated with Jews? Or was it the synagogue terror attack in Manchester on Yom Kippur? Could it have been the smearing of feces across synagogue doors just meters from the ambulance attack? Maybe it was the four men arrested, days ago—two in my own area—for surveilling Jewish schools, preschools, and synagogues on behalf of the psychotic extremists in power in Iran? Should it have been the Golders Green "convoy" where Muslim men in blacked out cars shouted "Jews, we will murder you and rape your daughters"? (All charged dropped.) Was it the two years of hate marches in central London? Could it have been the black flag of jihad flying across the city, including at a rally for then-mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan? (He excused it.) Was it the Hamas flags and banners, the Hezbollah flags and banners? (None charged.) Might it be the man who attacked a Jewish grocery store in, again, Golders Green with a machete, screaming about the Jews? (No jail time.) Could it be the dozens of violent attacks against Hasidic Jews in Stamford Hill, their own neighborhood? Could it be the NHS doctor openly denying the Holocaust and making slit-your-throat gestures at Jewish patients? (Case dismissed.) Maybe it was the other NHS doctor who wrote on social media that "‘virtually every Jew has some feelings of supremacy," then posted a sign with the words "rape, steal, cry, kill, cheat, lie" arranged around the Star of David, then refused to refer a Jewish boy with cerebral palsy for specialist treatment? (9 month suspension.) Might it have been the woman, proudly diverse, on a London bus in the center of town who shouted at my wife and children "Are you Jews?! Are you Jews?!" (Driver ignored.) Perhaps it was when the @guardian—bastion of tolerance—proclaimed just last week that a bakery that happened to be founded by a Jew should be verboten. I could go on and on and on. But let's be clear: that mythical when-you-know-it's-time-to-leave line has been crossed, trampled upon, spit on, torn up, ridiculed, and read to filth. This month, Wales' richest Jewish person, legendary tech investor Michael Moritz, announced he was seeking citizenship *in Germany* because of the "hostility" to Jews in the UK. So look at the image below and tell me: are we simply waiting for outright catastrophe? No, friends. It's time to make your plans. Get your affairs in order, as they say. This is not a place that wants Jews in its midst. They might say otherwise—the talking points are designed to sooth—but the writing is on every single wall.