It should shame us that Jews live in fear in 21st-century Britain

Flowers and tributes left at the scene of a terror attack at a synagogue in Manchester last October. Photograph: Adam Vaughan/EPA

Jonathan Freedland writes a timely article about the dangers facing Jews in the diaspora (Attacks on synagogues and Jewish shops in the UK, Europe and the US don’t hurt Netanyahu. They just hurt ordinary Jews, 20 March). Antisemitism has always been a light sleeper – and it is stirring once more in modern Britain.

Modern antisemitism draws from several sources: the far right, the extreme left, often obsessively focused on Israel, and Islamist‑inspired hatred. Like a virus, it has infected a number of public-facing institutions.