In an editorial on 3 November the Morning Star has warned of a “horrifying increase in anti-semitic incidents across Britain since the start of the present Gaza crisis” and stated that socialists “cannot ignore this” even “as we fight for peace in Gaza.” This is a significant development. The sharp rise in antisemitic incidents that began immediately following Hamas’s pogrom on 7 October (i.e. well before Israel’s attack on Gaza) had previously scarcely been mentioned in the Morning Star.