On Tuesday night, Tzipi Hotevely, the Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, came to the London School of Economics (LSE) to speak with students. A protest took place outside during the event, which devolved into an attack on the ambassador, who had to be evacuated. The editors of Britain’s Jewish Chronicle respond:

On November 9, 1938, the Nazis instigated a pogrom in Germany which became known as Kristallnacht. Eighty-three years later to the day, . . . Tzipi Hotovely was forced out of the LSE by violent racists on the hunt for a Jew to attack. Social-media posts make their aim very clear, with one . . . calling for her car window to be smashed. “Let’s f—in’ frighten her,” it continued. “Let’s make her shake.”

Footage of last night’s scenes has now been widely circulated. They shame the LSE. But they also shame our nation, because although the scale and extent of the violence last night may have been greater than usual, it is only a matter of scale. On campuses across the UK, Israeli spokespeople are always subject to attack when they appear. But the crucial point is [that] it is not just official Israeli spokespeople who are targeted—it is Jews, and Jewish students.

The anti-Jewish racism is even institutionalized, with organized hate-fests such as the so-called “Israel Apartheid Week,” which provides an annual umbrella for some of the most open and virulent anti-Semitism. . . . Eighty-three years after Kristallnacht, the ambassador of the world’s only Jewish state was attacked by a hate-filled mob on the streets of London. History is alive.

For some time, opponents of U.S support for Israel have been urging the White House to end the war in Gaza, or simply calling for a ceasefire. Douglas Feith and Lewis Libby consider what such a result would actually entail:

Ending the war immediately would allow Hamas to survive and retain military and governing power. Leaving it in the area containing the Sinai-Gaza smuggling routes would ensure that Hamas can rearm. This is why Hamas leaders now plead for a ceasefire. A ceasefire will provide some relief for Gazans today, but a prolonged ceasefire will preserve Hamas’s bloody oppression of Gaza and make future wars with Israel inevitable.

For most Gazans, even when there is no hot war, Hamas’s dictatorship is a nightmarish tyranny. Hamas rule features the torture and murder of regime opponents, official corruption, extremist indoctrination of children, and misery for the population in general. Hamas diverts foreign aid and other resources from proper uses; instead of improving life for the mass of the people, it uses the funds to fight against Palestinians and Israelis.

Moreover, a Hamas-affiliated website warned Gazans last month against cooperating with Israel in securing and delivering the truckloads of aid flowing into the Strip. It promised to deal with those who do with “an iron fist.” In other words, if Hamas remains in power, it will begin torturing, imprisoning, or murdering those it deems collaborators the moment the war ends. Thereafter, Hamas will begin planning its next attack on Israel:

Hamas’s goals are to overshadow the Palestinian Authority, win control of the West Bank, and establish Hamas leadership over the Palestinian revolution. Hamas’s ultimate aim is to spark a regional war to obliterate Israel and, as Hamas leaders steadfastly maintain, fulfill a Quranic vision of killing all Jews.

Hamas planned for corpses of Palestinian babies and mothers to serve as the mainspring of its October 7 war plan. Hamas calculated it could survive a war against a superior Israeli force and energize enemies of Israel around the world. The key to both aims was arranging for grievous Palestinian civilian losses. . . . That element of Hamas’s war plan is working impressively.