I used to think antisemitism was a past problem. Christian reactions to Gaza have changed my mind

If you don’t think that antisemitism has become magnified in recent weeks, then you’re definitely not Jewish, says Michael Coren 

I was first aware of my Jewish heritage when I was 7 years old. I was at the home of a new friend I’d met in the local park. We were playing innocently when his father came home and began shouting. I only realised later what he’d been saying. “Is he a Jew? Get him out of here.”

I’m actually only half-Jewish, so perhaps I should have asked if I could at least stay until lunchtime…

In fact, I experienced very little antisemitism growing up in Britain and now living in Canada. I’ve three Jewish grandparents but my maternal grandmother was Anglican and I was raised with a limited Jewish identity.