A couple of weeks ago I sat down with the Glasgow Jewish Representative Council.

The members round the table told me of their deep unease - saying that people within their community were no longer feeling safe.

Attacks abroad and anti-Semitism at home meant that one of Scotland's oldest and most assimilated communities felt under threat.

I asked what had changed.

Shootings at a synagogue in Copenhagen, January's terrorist attack on a Jewish supermarket which saw shoppers killed and the assault last year on the Jewish Museum in Brussels had left people here shaken.

Just this weekend we've seen a drunken mob hurling abuse outside of a north London synagogue.

While the full details are still to emerge, six have so far been arrested with Scotland Yard treating the incident as anti-Semitic in nature.

Newspapers have now started running stories about Jewish people leaving London or mainland Europe to live in Israel.

These are the headlines, and none of them relate to Scotland.

But behind those headlines is a story of rising anti-Jewish sentiment.

Reports of anti-Semitic graffiti sprayed on buildings; of members of Scotland's Jewish community being harassed; of Scotland's police force stepping up their patrols past Jewish places of worship and raising the threat level to Jewish targets.

Between 2013 and 2014, recorded incidents of anti-Jewish hate crime have more than doubled, with the majority taking place right here in Glasgow.

Last month, the Community Security Trust, which monitors anti-Semitism right across Britain, reported that incidents were at their highest level since it began work in 1984.

Beyond the statistics are the people affected - a senior rabbi met with Nazi salutes while out in Glasgow City Centre, Jews turning up at Temple in East Renfrewshire to find the most disgusting, hateful threats daubed on the wall of their place of worship.

This sort of behaviour cannot be excused or allowed to persist. Such intolerance has absolutely no place in our society.

To put it bluntly, Scotland is better than this.

Scotland's Jewish community is part of our cultural life and has been for generations.

We do not tolerate racist attacks, homophobic attacks or sectarian attacks - anti-Semitic attacks are no different and we have a responsibility to call them out.

That's why I am happy to show my support for Scotland's Jewish population when it says its members feel vulnerable and afraid.

Glasgow is a welcoming city.

We have always extended the hand of friendship to people who choose to build their life here, irrespective of race, religion or background.

Let's show we mean it.