Johann Hari was always the best of the Harry’s Place lot. In contrast to the Sensible Left’s hysteria, Mr Hari has an extremely strong, well-reasoned article on his own blog about antisemitism.

Let’s be clear. There is no sensible paradigm under which you can accuse Trevor Beattie, the Labour party or Ken Livingstone of antisemitism, and the people who nonetheless make such accusations are cynically exploiting Jewish history to win political points. Similarly, when ignorant American bigots suggest that all Jews should get out of the UK right now because life here is too dangerous, they display a combined degree of arrogance and ignorance that’s unprecedented outside of the rightwing punditocracy.

However, it’s important not to lose sight of real examples among all the nonsensical wolf-crying bullshit. Across the world (including the US), there has been a small-but-actual rise in negative attitudes to Jews and physical attacks on Jews. This is a very, very bad thing, and should not be trivialised, played down, or swept under the carpet.

Read the Hari article. Question your own attitudes. And try not to let your understandably visceral reaction against bastards like Rod Liddle and the Conservative Party colour your approach to reports of resurgent antisemitism.