Judith Moritz

who may find themselves perhaps more vulnerable overtly to that.

But, you know, I think the point about anti-Semitism and the way it's cutting through across the whole of the community from the Orthodox end through all of the other denominations, and of course the Jewish community is multifaceted through the progressive side as well, is that everybody in that community engaging in a Jewish space, a synagogue, a school, perhaps going into a kosher shop, they will see the protective measures which are now in place as standard.

Yeah, we've come across a few, actually.

I mean, in fact, there's a chap I spoke to on Thursday this week who literally, I went round to his house and the for sale sign was on the front drive and he was packing up his last bits, Richard Manville.

who told me in Manchester he lives down the road from Heaton Park Synagogue and he's leaving the country because he cannot cope, he said, with any more anti-Semitism.

He's moving to Israel.

Now, that is a decision clearly which didn't happen this week in the wake of Golders Green.

But I asked him what had caused him to put the house on the market and make that choice.

And he said it's a drip, drip effect since the 7th of October, 23.

when he really felt tensions increase and the amount of anti-Semitism increase, life became harder.

He lives down the road from Heaton Park Synagogue.

He has friends who were sadly caught up in that attack.

It felt very close to home.

And I said, you know,

There will be people saying to you that it seems extraordinary that you feel safer in Israel with all that's going on there than you do in the UK.

And he said, well, it might do, but as a Jewish man, that's how I feel.

And I have to tell you, he's not the only member of the Jewish community who said that to us this week.

And there is some research by the Institute for Jewish Policy Research, which suggests that one in five British Jews are currently considering moving to Israel or talking about it.

at some point over the next five years.

I think this intersection of politics and policing is uncomfortable on all fronts, but it's not new, is it?