Among the Tories’ manifesto promises, along with Getting Brexit Done and introducing a ‘firmer and fairer’ Australian-style points-based immigration system, was a pledge to give police new powers to arrest and seize the property of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities whose encampments are deemed unauthorised. State seizure of a community’s possessions and the threat of incarceration is past the point of a slippery slope. Jews understand as well as anyone that an attack on one minority is an attack on us all.