Fighting antisemitism

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...

Exposés of antisemitism

i>entleman’s Agreement (dir. Elia Kazan) and Crossfire (dir. Edward Dmytryk) both released in 1947, were two of the first American films to address antisemitism after World War 2. Kazan’s film stars Gregory Peck, a journalist who poses as Jewish so as to be better placed to write a report on antisemitism in New York. What he finds shocks him. Crossfire centres on an investigation into the murder of a Jewish man in a hotel room (in the original novel the victim was homosexual). The suspects are all serving US soldiers. As the police and army (Robert Mitchum plays the sergeant heading the...

Jewish identity in Britain today

How to understand historically developed Jewish identity has been a vexed question for the socialist left. Is Judaism merely a religion? Or is there a Jewish ethnicity, nation, or “race”?

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...

David Miller’s world

David Miller, a former Professor of Political Sociology at Bristol University, whose recent Employment Tribunal has brought much comment, believes that Zionism is more powerful than any state in the world: “The sovereignty of every nation in the world is undermined by the Zionist movement’s activities.” The Zionist movement, he claims, is seeking world domination: “The enemy we face is trying to impose its will all over the world.” There is an ongoing “attempt by the Israelis to impose their will all over the world, and that’s what we should recognise.” Miller jumps back and forth between...

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...

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...

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.

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