The coronavirus has just found another fertile environment. For weeks, the 2 million Palestinians crammed into Gaza have hoped and prayed that the virus would not breach the Israeli-Egyptian blockade of this Eastern Mediterranean open-air prison. Those days are over.

The third far-right atrocity in Germany since last June may finally shake the German and other governments out of their misguided lethargy. As with so many European states, the focus remains locked on Islamist extremist terror, while its far-right equivalent sails under the radar.