E ven if — and it is a big if — you believed Israel was an oppressor state that deserved all the opprobrium it got, it would be impossible to make the case that attacking Jewish Londoners “because” of the Israel-Hamas war was not racist. This cognitive dissonance takes two forms. The Metropolitan Police has already reported a “massive” rise in anti-Semitic incidents in the capital. Fear is proving very effective indeed. As well as the visible threat, when the leader of Hamas called for a day of global attacks on Jews last Friday, schools closed and families stayed indoors....