A new low
WHETHER the arson attack on four Jewish-run ambulances was directly orchestrated by Iran or not, it has all the hallmarks of terrorism.
Blowing up those vehicles was designed to strike fear into the heart of a community which has been subjected to a campaign of hate for nearly two years.
Whoever was responsible wanted to send an ideological message of threat and intimidation to Jews everywhere.
What is particularly sickening is that the ambulances belonged to a volunteer service which has helped save the lives of people of ALL faiths and backgrounds.
For many British Jews yesterday’s attack may have been frightening but not surprising.
They have endured months of hate marchers calling for global intifada against them and for the only Jewish state in the world to be wiped out.
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In Margate, an “art exhibition” openly displays disgusting cartoons showing Jews eating babies.
The artist called yesterday’s incident a “false flag”.
One in five students say they wouldn’t share a house with a Jew.
Two men were killed in a terrorist attack at a Manchester synagogue.
This all adds up to the most prolonged attack on Jews since the rise of Hitler in the 1930s.
What is both troubling and shameful is that these outrages have been met by politicians with meaningless platitudes.
Or, worse, a collective shrug of indifference.
Decision time WILL it take an Iranian missile to smash into British soil for ministers to stop squabbling over vital defence spending?
Sir Keir Starmer pledged last year to put Britain on a war footing.
But yesterday he lost his cool as he told MPs he couldn’t give a date for when that cash might materialise.
Yes, he has inherited a mess of decades of underinvestment and incompetence within the Ministry of Defence.
But the global humiliation suffered by the Royal Navy shows now is not the time for petty infighting in Whitehall.
Starmer can’t dither his way out of this.
He must make hard choices now. That means ditching exorbitant Net Zero commitments and slashing welfare to pay our national security.
Snub’s no joke
BOB Monkhouse once told this gag: “Personally, I don’t think there’s intelligent life on other planets. Why should other planets be any different from this one?”
He might well have been describing the BBC’s bonkers decision to ditch an episode of Repair Shop featuring his joke books because a producer said they contained ONE joke which was sexist.
What’s no laughing matter is the Beeb’s seemingly limitless ability to short-change viewers with its obsessive wokeism.
