Jeremy Corbyn: a pacifist who lauds blood-soaked murderers, a believer in “dialogue” who backs believers in terror, a freedom fighter who wants to control the press, a “kinder, gentler” politician who allows antisemitism to run rife in his own party. I would call all this ironic but the Labour leader has implied that Brits of Jewish heritage such as me just don’t get it.

Corbyn’s crashingly awful remarks about Zionists add to a long list of views that range on a short spectrum between deranged and dangerous. Hamas are “brothers”, Hezbollah are “friends”, the Soviet Union was “no real threat”, North Korea was “not a rogue state”, the assassination of Osama bin Laden was a “tragedy”. The IRA were “pretty decent guys”. (No,