Given that we already know how difficult it is to be specific about what leaving the European Union will mean for the Jewish community, the session in Parliament was light on detail.
As impressive an orator as Daniel Hannan is, aside from hammering home a point about the EU’s “disproportionate focus on Israel”, the Conservative MEP delivered little other than rehashed general Leave lines with a bit of Jewish content thrown in.
Louise Ellman, the Jewish Labour MP, more than amply filled in for Lord Adonis, who had been set to oppose Mr Hannan’s points but was detained in the Lords discussing, of all things, the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill.
But it was left mainly to the non-politicians in the audience to make an impact. Rabbi Avrohom Pinter said he was scared he might need to leave Britain “because of the erosion of religious life, rather than the rise of antisemitism”, which prompted a proper discussion on whether Jewish life would improve after we leave the EU.
