This is strikingly similar to appeals that have also been made in recent months by the English Defence League (EDL). It is also essentially the same as opportunistic attempts by British National Party leader Nick Griffin to ditch both his and his party’s antisemitic heritage, by stressing his supposed new-found support for Israel and Jews.

The point about the EDL is a good one. The EDL has taken to waving the Israeli flag at their protests but I can almost guarantee that there are very few (if any) Jews at those protests. Jews willing to align themselves with Eurofascists are very very rare, especially in Europe.