
Politics and Society
Political analysis, antisemitism, social issues, and sport
62 total articles

Author-publishedJewish Football Royalty
Author-publishedDave Chappelle, Jon Stewart and Jewish Anti-Defamation

Where Do You Really Come From?
Author-publishedDon't mention the Green
Margaret Harris remembers a childhood incident that still makes her nervous about naming Golders Green
Author-publishedVolodymyr Zelensky: From Rootless Cosmopolitan to Democratic Icon

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?

Defining antisemitism - again, and again...
A couple of new antisemitism definitions have ridden into town. Keith Kahn-Harris girds his loins.
Author-published‘Law Not War’
Author-publishedChallenging Jewish Stereotypes, One Client at a Time
Author-publishedInto the flatlands with Professor David Miller
Why rejecting David Miller's antisemitism also requires rejecting the flatland he inhabits.
Author-publishedShylock
Author-publishedJewish Space Lasers
Author-publishedGeorge Orwell: Oracle, Political Visionary, Antisemite?

Why Is There Resistance to A Working Definition of Antisemitism?
Günther Jikeli offers a defence of the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism
Author-publishedTeaching Antisemitism in the Classroom

We need better ways to speak to each other about campus antisemitism and Israel
Ken Stern argues that efforts to oppose campus antisemitism must be consistent with academic freedom and free speech, and this means rejection of hate speech codes such as IHRA.

Dang!

A letter in support of Professor David Feldman and the Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism
Author-publishedJews & Chess
Author-publishedBloated and Angry: Rudolph Giuliani

The EHRC report shows that anti-racist solidarity, not special protection, is the way forward
Author-publishedPoor Jeremy

When Joe Biden announced his candidacy for President of the United States, c1984
Author-publishedA book about Jewish footballers would be the shortest book in history

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? A Profile of Yehudis Fletcher
Author-publishedLockdown and Motherhood

A ‘Modern’ Blood Libel

Streaming Rosh Hashanah
Author-publishedHow Will This Rosh HaShanah Be Different From Every Other? It Won't
Author-publishedThe 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
Author-publishedPost-truth, QAnon and the Jewish response - a call for submissions
Author-publishedConsidering the antisemitism of Jeremy Corbyn

Labour is Cleaning House, the Tories Must, Too.
Author-publishedSourdough is Goyish, Challah is Jewish

COVID, Ducks and Balak the Crazy Dog
Author-publishedCorbynites prepare to reject EHRC findings

48 hours later: Now let's confront our own hatefulness on Twitter.

Jewish Art: Where Are You?

Why Isn’t Anybody Talking About…
Author-publishedA Letter from Portland
Author-publishedHousework, Covid and Mierle Laderman Ukeles’s 'Maintenance Art'

Wiley Has Made Jews Less Safe
Author-publishedKinder Korner: Singers Hill Synagogue in Birmingham, UK--the Minecraft edition!

Grandma in Lockdown*

Zooming in The Family

Cremation: So What If It's Heresy?
Author-publishedFreud meets Shtisel

Locked Down Jews in Leicester
As the lockdown extends in Leicester, Lucy Michaels considers the pros and cons of being based in a small Jewish community during COVID-19.
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