On Tuesday there was a session in Parliament which was entitled “Town Centre Safety” that involved a number of MPs which can be found from here. As it happens there were no Sussex MPs involved but one of the MPs who contributed was Michael Ellis who is a Conservative MP for Northampton and he is also a member of the Jewish community. When he was speaking he included this content and I spotted one of the elements that is focused on Brighton which was very sad because of the challenge from a person that was criticising the a Jewish person. His first few words were

I commend this debate. When it comes to safety in town centres, my constituency of Northampton North has seen knife crime, and it has had a very painful impact. We all want safety in our town centres, and at the moment that is particularly true of the Jewish community, who have been subject to numerous antisemitic incidents in the last few weeks.

A few minutes later he then added

A Jewish organisation that works in holocaust education received a message via its website saying:

“Nazi Israel, which has nuclear weapons, must all surrender and be arrested to stand trial. White-hat hackers blast these Nazis.”

In Manchester, two men were walking towards a woman wearing a star of David, shouting, “Gas, gas.” In Essex a woman was woken up by banging on her front door, and a group of men shouting “get out bloody Jews.” In London, a woman said to a visibly Jewish man:

“Oh you are everywhere, just like the rest.”

On a bus in Brighton, a man repeatedly called a woman an “evil Jew”. A woman at a pro-Palestinian protest in Glasgow was holding a sign saying,

“one holocaust does not justify another.”