Last week it was announced that Stephen Fry would be delivering this year’s alternative Christmas message on Channel 4. What refreshing news. After all, it was only in 2008 that the Holocaust-denying, Jew-hating president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was given the platform. So to hear instead that Fry – a national treasure and a powerful campaigner on issues including gay rights and mental health – will be using this moment to raise awareness of the hatred and racism directed at Jewish people right now, is very welcome. Antisemitism has risen year on year but the events of recent months have...