Sarah Sackman

What starts with Jews doesn't end with Jews.

When I say that an attack on Britain's Jews is an attack on Britain itself.

I mean it.

Those remarks have been echoed from the top to bottom of government, and I would welcome cross-party working on this.

This is a genie that's out the bottle.

It's not going to be easy to put back in.

We need solidarity from all different communities and from all different institutions.

And I think that there are some things that are above politics.

And I would hope that everybody can not just condemn this, but come together to work on the values that we share as British people and thereby stand with our British community to say that you're not just tolerated, you're not just accepted, but you are British.

I'm reminded of a phrase.

I was recently in Amsterdam visiting with my children and I took my children to the Anne Frank House.

And she had a line in her diary saying that she looked forward to the day where we could get back to just being people, not Jews.

I know that many British Jews and I feel exactly the same.

I think it's quite simple.

If you want to understand the actual threat that Jews face, just turn on the news today.

There have been Jews stabbed in my constituency for no other reason than they are Jewish.

And if you want to understand how racism and terror works, it's designed to strike fear into people, not just about what's actually happening, but what may happen.

And that is where those who are seeking to divide us, who do not share our values, are seeking to sow that fear.

That is what they are doing,

through petrol bombing towards synagogues, through surveillance of Jewish sites, of nurseries.