This week's announcement of more than £250m to boost protection for Jewish communities is a serious and necessary response to a serious problem.

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More officers around Jewish neighbourhoods, schools, synagogues and community centres will provide reassurance at a moment when many Jewish people are asking whether everyday life is becoming less safe. But the very need for such measures should give us pause. Physical security can deter attacks, but cannot, on its own, create lasting safety.

In his resignation speech, Keir Starmer described “ripping out the poison of antisemitism” within the Labour Party as one of his defining achievements. It is justified to describe antisemitism in those terms, but poison rarely confines itself neatly to one institution or one moment in time. The harder test is what happens beyond party politics: whether a society recognises antisemitism before it settles into the background noise of everyday life.

Recent events in Britain show why this matters. In Golders Green, ambulances belonging to Hatzola, a........

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