Ministers aren’t always the quickest to take accountability in a time of crisis. So, it is easy to see why, after yesterday’s atrocity at a Manchester synagogue, the line being pedalled by the Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood this morning was that responsibility for the attack lies with ‘the assailants alone’. Snappy rhetoric, but it won’t keep Britain’s Jews any safer from harm.

The trajectory of radicalisation that seems to have taken the suspect Jihad Al-Shamie from hateful thoughts to murderous action takes not just a village, but an institutionalised nation. That’s a growing void of responsibility no number of words can paper over.

Rampant anti-Semitism wrapped in pro-Palestinian sentiment has normalised hatred of Jews

Consider the risk factors at play ahead of yesterday. Since Hamas

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