Life expectancy across Europe is 81 years. An 81-year-old European dying today would have been born on the day Auschwitz was liberated. It has taken one average European lifetime for us to forget the lessons of the Shoah.

How many Jews do you think there are in the world? Out of 8.1 billion people alive today, we are just 0.194 per cent of the world’s population. There are only around 15.7 million of us.

The worldwide Jewish population has not yet fully recovered to its pre-Holocaust numbers. From 16.6 million before the war, only 11 million remained after. It was a genocide.

In the 81 years since then, we have still not reached the population levels of 1939. We have not recovered from our last major slaughter, and once again we are asking a question no people should have to ask repeatedly: where in the world is safe for us to live peaceful, ethical, cultural and spiritual lives?

Some 7.3 million of the world’s Jews live in Israel. That is 46.5 per cent of us. Outside Israel, only 0.104 per cent of the world’s population is Jewish. Statistically, we barely register. Yet anti-Semitic offences account for 21 per cent of all recorded religious hate crimes in England and Wales. We do not........

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