There are two hair-raising aspects about the antisemitic attack on a group of friends having a night out in the small hours of Sunday morning.
One — obviously, self-evidently, goes without saying — is that it’s repulsive that people should be picked on for speaking Hebrew in public. It’s odious that an individual can be asked in London whether he or she is Jewish and then subjected to a barrage of abuse... “F*** Jews; Free Palestine” and the rest of it. It’s outrageous that a young woman and her companions could be physically assaulted — by a group of up to 20 young men — on the basis that she said that yes, she is indeed Jewish, and good for her for saying so. This, folks, is Leicester Square. Not some tucked-away dark corner. Pretty well the centre of London.
