On Kristallnacht, like on Jerusalem Day, mobs took to the streets knowing the political order supported them, while an intimidated population shut itself up indoors. While Jerusalemite Palestinians used to shut their windows and wait for the crowds to go by, though, today there is a real fear of being killed

Israel's prime minister may look tired, ill and incoherent, but tyrants do not disappear on diagnosis alone. Netanyahu has already built the conditions for dictatorship; Israelis are responsible for dismantling them

Political correctness obliges European governments to 'take measures' against Israel now, slapping sanctions on a handful of settler leaders like Daniella Weiss and Meir Deutsch, the director of settler NGO Regavim