Beside Israel’s devastating continued assault against a Gaza Strip on the brink of famine, the public reaction to 18 months of war by a small group of UK citizens might seem unimportant – all the more so after the senseless and indefensible killing of two young Israeli embassy staff in Washington DC on Wednesday evening.
But last month’s declaration by 36 members of the Board of Deputies of British Jews against an escalation of the war in which "Israel's soul is being ripped out" is not only still reverberating through their own community, but has a much wider significance.
