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Antisemitism and Israel

For sixty years, the Anti-Defamation League has been profiling Americans to try to monitor antisemitic beliefs. For the first half century of doing that, they found a fairly steady and ongoing decline in anti-Jewish sentiment. They would ask people if they agreed with a number of statements about Jews. Things like: Jews don’t care what happens to anyone but their own kind. Jews do not share my values. Jews are more willing than others to use shady practices to get what they want. Over many decades, belief in many of those once-popular anti-Jewish tropes began to decline. American Jews...

How to beat antisemitism

Nick Griffin has endorsed George Galloway in the upcoming Rochdale by-election. What unites Griffin, the fascist, and Galloway, the self-proclaimed anti-fascist, is that both see “anti-Zionism” as a starting point from which an entire worldview can be developed. For both, “Zionism” is a world-shaping power. “Free Palestine and Britain from Zionism”, says Griffin’s Twitter profile. The musician and activist Lowkey, who has shared many platforms with Galloway, presents a video hosted by Double Down News purporting to “expose” Israel’s “secret role” in “controlling key functions of our...

About Lula's statements on Gaza

This article was first published in French by Arguments pour La Lutte Sociale (Arguments for Social Struggle), here . This translation is abridged and lightly edited. —— At the African Union summit in Addis Ababa, Brazilian President Lula said: “What is happening in the Gaza Strip with the Palestinian people has not happened at any other time in history. In fact, it has already happened: when Hitler decided to kill the Jews.” It’s important for left-wing activists who want to re-establish a genuine internationalism based on truth and not supporting any geopolitical camp, to give some arguments...

Starmer to blame for Rochdale fiasco

Keir Starmer’s running of the Labour Party is to blame for the fiasco of the Rochdale by-election on 29 February. Labour has disavowed its candidate, Azhar Ali. It is too near to polling day on 29 February to run another candidate or even to remove Ali’s “Labour” designation from ballot papers. The reactionary demagogue George Galloway now has a good chance, and maybe even the far-right Reform Party’s candidate, Simon Danczuk (a former right-wing Labour MP who was sacked by Labour after harassing a 17-year old woman). The Tories got 31% in 2019. A local Labour activist told us that his guess...

Jewish students protest at Miller

Around 50 Jewish students protested “against antisemitic hatred in Bristol” on Sunday 11 February. David Miller and Lowkey headlined a panel organised by “Bristol Palestine Alliance” , whose members include Bristol Stop the War, Bristol Palestine Solidarity Campaign, and “Bristol Muslim Community” . The talk’s purpose included largely denying the existence of antisemitism, and demonising those who call it out. Bristol University Jewish Society (JSoc) organised the protest outside the panel, specifically against Miller, though with limited publicity in advance. Their placards denounced Miller’s...

Academic freedom battle remains

Former sociology professor David Miller has won an employment tribunal case about his sacking by Bristol University in October 2021. Miller is a high-profile “absolute anti-Zionist” who considers himself left-wing. The decision has been hailed by some as a victory for academic freedom. Bristol University said it sacked Miller because of his treatment of students, not because of his views. At the time we wrote that those could be good grounds to sack him; we couldn’t say whether the university’s case was sufficient, since it had given no details. We despised Miller’s views but were against him...

Four books on antisemitism

“Nazis, Islamic Antisemitism and the Middle East”, “Three Faces of Antisemitism: Right, Left and Islamist”, “The Rebirth of Antisemitism in the 21st Century” and “Mapping the New Left Antisemitism” are four collections of articles and essays published at the close of 2023 by the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism.

Peace, justice, and... Stalinism

Jeremy Corbyn announced his Peace and Justice Project (PJP) in December 2020, with a mission statement that included: “To bring people together for social and economic justice, peace, and human rights, in Britain and across the world… [It] will work with labour and social movements and provide platforms to those campaigning for change for the many, not the few.” Corbyn’s more cultish supporters expressed disappointment that (in the words of the Canary website) he “hasn’t launched a new political party in the face of the continuing demise of the Labour Party. But what this new project will...

The Holocaust as moral instruction?

Reposted, with thanks, from JewThink. Parts of the article are adapted from the posts by the author on Twitter/X . “My grandpa didn’t survive Auschwitz to bomb Gaza”, reads a placard held by a Jewish woman at a protest in Mexico against a previous Israel assault on Gaza . A photo of the placard went viral on social media in 2021. More recently, the American group Jewish Voice for Peace has shared a photo of a protestor at a demonstration against the current war with a banner reading “My grandparents didn’t survive the Holocaust for Israel to commit genocide in Gaza.” In both current and prior...

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