Indivisible

After a terror attack on a synagogue, nobody should be asked to choose between solidarity with Palestinians and solidarity with British Jews. So why is our government demanding exactly that?

It didn’t take long for the accusations to come. A deadly antisemitic attack on a synagogue in Manchester on Yom Kippur last week left two dead and Britain’s tiny Jewish community shaken and fearful. But that fear was quickly mobilised for political ends.

Again and again, a heinous attack on Jews at prayer on their holiest day was corralled by leaders a…