The smallish British Jewish community has been traumatised by the Hamas massacres of Israeli citizens last weekend. The “never again” happened again. Jewish people I know have close relatives called up into the Israeli military and some will die. Others have lost family members directly. The hurt and the fear are palpable.
And are accompanied by a strong feeling of isolation. This was captured by the Sunday Times’s Hadley Freeman this weekend. She wrote about the lack of Israeli flags flying in windows (compared with, say, Ukrainian flags) and reported the following: “‘Well, now we know who would have helped us, and who would have pushed us on to the trains,’ a friend texted me.”
