Today is Golders Green Together day. Golders Green is being decorated in green and gold , and leaders and volunteers from all of the area's communities and across the political divide will be coming together to express a message of unity and rejection of bigotry.
The reason for this uplifting movement was to provide a positive response to tomorrow's rally by a tiny group of far-right extremists who intended to disturb the peace of Golders Green on Shabbat.
However, thanks to the campaign - a fine example of co-operation between the Board of Deputies, the London Jewish Forum and Hope not Hate, with the support of the Community Security Trust - the rally has been moved.
Journalists asked me why we bothered to take on such a tiny group of extremists with absolutely no electoral traction. But however sad a bunch they are, their message is hateful and utterly offensive. We cannot and will not stand by and ignore it.
