Melanie Phillips: The deepening madness against the Jews

The tsunami of global antisemitism in the wake of the massacre of Israelis on October 7, 2023 and during the Gaza war that followed has caused as much bafflement as horror at the sheer perversity of this malevolence.

It’s now become clear, however, that what we’re looking at is an even more sinister pattern of behaviour. Appallingly, the slaughter of Jews excites a large number of people so much that it galvanises them to howl for the blood of more.