Zack Polanski is furious. Not so much with the stabbing of two Jews in Golders Green yesterday. So far, he has managed one perfunctory tweet about that horrific attack, which curiously doesn’t feature the words Jews or anti-Semitism. Since then, he and his outriders have been angrily pushing back on any suggestion that, when it comes to the rise in Jew hatred, his Green party might just have something to do with it.

No one is suggesting that Polanski, who is himself Jewish, is some frothing-at-the-mouth anti-Semite. But the charge that his party has become a magnet for anti-Semites – and a key voice in minimising the threat now posed to Britain’s Jews – is hardly unfounded, however many spittle-flecked missives Zack and Co post online.

It was only last week that Polanski, when asked about the spate of arson attacks on synagogues and the torching of the four Hatzola ambulances – which formed the grim drumbeat building up to yesterday’s sickening scenes, came out with the already-infamous lines:

Now, there’s a conversation to be had about whether it’s........

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