That distinction is where I believe Kemi Badenoch and the Conservative Party got this badly wrong. It would be a colossal mistake to allow this episode to erase the fact that Kemi Badenoch has, for several years now, been one of the strongest political allies of Britain's Jewish community. Following a meeting with British Jewish community leaders in January 2025, representatives from the Board of Deputies, Jewish Leadership Council and Community Security Trust issued a joint statement thanking Kemi “for her allyship to the Jewish community and to Israel over many years.” Badenoch has stood out as one of the most prominent political allies of British Jews at a moment when antisemitism has become an increasingly poisonous feature of public life. Kemi Badenoch should be big enough to acknowledge that she got this one wrong.