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A left response to left antisemitism: Is it too late for education?
Two recently-published books try and educate the left against antisemitism. Will they succeed?
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Keith Kahn-Harris
Dr Keith Kahn-Harris is a senior lecturer at Leo Baeck College, runs the European Jewish Research Archive at the IJPR and is an Honorary Fellow of the Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism at Birkbeck College. His most recent book is Strange Hate: Antisemitism, Racism and the Limits of Diversity (Repeater 2019).
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Keeping the show on the road
The May 2021 conflagration in Israel/Palestine has raised painful issues of resilience in the UK Jewish community.
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Defining antisemitism - again, and again...
A couple of new antisemitism definitions have ridden into town. Keith Kahn-Harris girds his loins.
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Shemini Atzeret / Simchat Torah 5784/2023: A collective memoir
Perhaps we should mourn the festivity that was taken away from us, just as we mourn the deaths and suffering that occurred during that festival. JewThink solicited contributions from British Jews reflecting on their experiences of the festival. Let us remember these ruptures even as we try and come to terms with the wider rupture.
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Jewish velvet - a touching memoire
Keith Kahn-Harris explores how his inability to tolerate the touch of velvet shaped his experience of growing up Jewish.
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On (not) celebrating Jewish diversity
Keith Kahn-Harris explains how highlighting the diversity of British Jews through photography raises some uncomfortable issues
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Into the flatlands with Professor David Miller
Why rejecting David Miller's antisemitism also requires rejecting the flatland he inhabits.
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A Gloriously Miserable British Sukkot
The worst the weather is on Sukkot, the more perfect the festival is
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Metal and the Holocaust: Too Much Transgression?
What do you do when you are drawn to the bad guys, but the baddest guys around are just too bad?
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Heavy Metal and Renewal: Rosh Hashanah in the end times
How metal's Christian apocalyptic sensibility can ground hope for a Jewish new year of renewal.
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The problem of love in Corbyn’s Labour Party: Reflections on Left Out
How Gabriel Pogrund and Patrick Maguire's 'Left Out' shows how love was always a greater problem than hate in Corbyn's Labour Party
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What if nothing changes?
WiIl the impact of Covid-19 be as ephemeral as the impact of the death of Diana?
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