Decades of political disengagement, weary cynicism and acceptance of their lot simply evaporated before this onslaught.

But Jews who fell victim to the escalating anti-Semitism did not feel that they could afford this political disengagement.

Events in the US and Europe have revealed a worrying degree of political disengagement among the young, amid prejudice-infused and ever-less civilised public debate.

In Scotland, both during and after the referendum campaign, young people have comprehensively demolished the myth that growing political disengagement is an irreversible onward change.