Last month I was asked to be one of the first “signatories” of the October Declaration, which has to date been signed by 130,000 others including Tom Stoppard, Liz Truss and Richard Dawkins. This open letter condemns all acts of terrorism against civilians in Israel on October 7.
I agreed with everything in the letter, hosted by the British Friends of Israel. I too find it sickening that Hamas’s attacks led to a spike in anti-Semitism from the playgrounds of Jewish schools in Hendon to the tarmac of Dagestan airport, and am also discouraged by the way that London is splitting into two tribes.
