Anti-racists march for Palestine every week. Where are they when Jews are hunted on British streets?

The Golders Green stabbing is the sixth attack against Jewish communities and property in just under a month. Let me say that again – six!
The question I want to ask is, in all of the antisemitic attacks, where are the anti-racist groups and campaigners that we have seen so omnipresent on our streets for over two years – marching for Palestine? Or shall we just say what is now blatantly obvious, that they don’t care a jot about the safety of British Jews?

There are some home truths which are now so blatantly obvious. Anti-racism movements, by and large, don’t see British Jews as deserving victims when they suffer hate, but as people who are all powerful and who have some intrinsic link to violence against Palestinians. In other words, anti-racism movements in the UK say that they tackle racism, unless it is anti-Jewish racism. Then, it is seems, Britain’s beleaguered Jewish communities are on their own and in some ways deserving of the hate they get.
Over the last 25 years of my work in British Muslim communities, I remember the numerous occasions when British Jews stood up for Muslims targeted by anti-Muslim hate. I remember British Jews distributing aid to Bosnian Muslims in the mid-1990s after the break up of Yugoslavia and calling for British military action against Serb paramilitary forces who rounded up Muslim men, women and children in what were concentration camps.
I remember British Jews speaking up against anti-Muslim attacks post 9/11 and 7/7 that started to ramp up in Britain at the time. I remember British Jews guiding British Muslims when they sought to defend halal practices.

So, where is the reciprocal support? Where is the leadership in British Muslim communities calling for antisemitism to be excised from small but significant parts of British Muslim communities, of which I am part? Where are the young Muslims holding banners in Golders Green saying, “We stand with you”? Where are the youthful nasheeds, religious songs in Islam, that speak of co-existence and the need to defend human life, driven by social justice? I can’t hear any being sung from the streets of Golders Green in support of Britain’s Jews.
Furthermore, where are Christian groups at this time, when Jewish brothers and sisters need to be physically and emotionally embraced in solidarity? For was it not Jesus’s central message to fight for and stand with the oppressed and in the defence of God’s creations? Wouldn’t church leaders, after 2,000 years of Christian antisemitism, have a special responsibility to stand with the Jewish community? 
You see, I am angry. I am angry that the anti-racism movements that I believed would stand with all victims, only seem to selectively find a spine when it suits them.
The Anglican Church, that once could rally thousands in defence of Christian values, today has little sway to mobilise people in the defence of others. Alongside this, many UK Muslim groups and imams show weak leadership – and in some cases outright spinelessness – when it comes to confronting and rejecting Islamism. The most we see are a handful of imams who do the government rounds, making generic statements against hate to feed their egos and sense of self-importance. 
To add insult to injury, they will not even call out Islamist extremism, but speak about “extremism” in general terms as though this generic extremism in the name of a perverted interpretation of Islam, has nothing to do with Islam or Muslims.
The Britain of the 1980s and 1990s that I grew up in stood for something. Today, in a desire to be all things to all communities, we stand as a nation for little else but hand-wringing and apathy. Worse still, politicians are willing to overlook bad behaviour in parts of my faith community for political expediency and votes.
I say this: If Britain cannot keep Jewish men and women safe, then it cannot defend itself from what is on the horizon. The dangers on the horizon are a Britain with fewer Jews and more people who seek to dismantle our core national values.
Fiyaz Mughal is the founder of Faith Matters, Tell MAMA and Muslims Against Antisemitism