A fellow Speccie writer asked me about what he called the ‘absurd equivalence’ being drawn between ‘anti-Semitism’ and ‘Islamophobia’. He made the interesting suggestion that all Jews want is the disappearance of persecution and hatred, while what Islam seems to want is complete acceptance and approval. It is certainly possible to understand the concerns raised by Keir Starmer’s openness to Sadiq Khan’s call for laws to make ‘Islamophobia’ a prosecutable criminal offence.