Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson has invited readers to check out his latest Daily Mail column.
Looking at the state of the world today, it is tempting to blame it all on a kind of collective amnesia. There are not many people alive who can remember the 1930s.
It must be a kind of mass amnesia about the horrors of the 1930s, because otherwise it is hard to explain how we can tolerate the upsurge in anti-Semitism — not just in continental Europe, this time, but also on the streets of our own capital.We have SS signs daubed on the walls of synagogues. When we failed to stand up to aggression, when we allowed ancient and irrational prejudices to take root and to spread throughout a European civilisation, we ended up with a total catastrophe.
Too many people have forgotten what this is all about and how it started — indeed, people don’t talk about it any more, as if it were somehow uncouth or irrelevant. This nightmare started one fine morning last autumn, at a time when hopes for reconciliation between Israel and its Arab neighbours had never been higher. It began when terrorists using cars, motorbikes and paragliders swarmed out of Gaza and indiscriminately attacked civilians.
But that option was not open to Israel, because the perpetrators — Hamas — were and are the elected government of Gaza; and they certainly weren’t going to hand themselves over. The lesson of the 1930s is democracy is always more fragile than you think. We have to stand up for democracy in Israel, in exactly the same way that we have to stand up for democracy in Ukraine.
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