Nasreen Khan, who until recently was shortlisted for a safe Labour council seat, claimed a few years ago that schools were “brainwashing us and our children into thinking the bad guy was Hitler” and asked: “What have the Jews done good in this world?” Apart from earning about a quarter of all Nobel prizes, formulating the theory of relativity, founding psychoanalysis, pioneering game theory and DNA computing; helping to invent synthetic fertiliser and creating vaccines for cholera, polio and measles; producing Roth, Kafka, Proust, Heller, Mailer, Salinger, Pinter; giving us West Side Story and The Wizard of Oz, Mendelssohn and Mahler, 2001: A Space Odyssey and Saving Private Ryan, Google and Facebook, I’m struggling.

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