Everyone knows how much I love the Surviving Society podcast with Chantelle Lewis and Tissot Regis, produced by George Ofori-Addo. So I was absolutely delighted to be invited back to talk about my feelings about my book more or less 1 year after its publication, a…
To mark the 25th anniversary of the Council of Europe’s European youth Campaign against racism, xenophobia, antisemitism and intolerance “All Different-All Equal”, Gavan Titley has edited a series of essays including one of mine in which I reflect on my role as co-coordinator with Yael Ohana…
Dr Debbie Bargallie and I have published an article in the journal, Current Sociology in which we discuss the uses of critical race and critical Indigenous approaches to the theorisation of race, antiracism, and Indigenous sovereignty in colonial Australia. The article is titled, Beyond convergence and…
‘As a Jew’ is a phrase I wish I never had to hear again in relation to Palestine. I don’t want to read anymore justifications that the Jewish tradition opposes violent settler colonialism. What is this Jewish tradition? There is no essence of Jewishness outside of…
Andrew Brooks has reviewed Why Race Still Matters for the Sydney Review of Books. I am very grateful for the care he took to relate to the book through a wide engagement with the politics of race in colonial Australia and what it means for his…
UPDATE: You can now watch a recording of this event here I will be speaking online about ‘Antisemitism and the Proxification of Antiracism’, the subject of the 4th chapter of Why Race Still Matters to the University of Edinburgh Race.Ed seminar series on February 17. The…
I was invited by Donna Nevel to participate in a panel organised by Jewish Voice for Peace, South Florida among some really great speakers, Barry Trachtenberg, Jamil Dakwar, Mark Tseng-Putterman, Meena Jagganath moderated by Martha Schoolman. The video of the event is below and the text…
I was delighted to have been invited to join Katharine Halls from the Jewish-Muslim Research Network in conversation about my book, Why Race Still Matters. A video of the discussion during which I answered questions from Katharine and participants in the webinar is below.
This reading from Chapter 3 of ‘Why Race Still Matters’ recalls the 2018 ‘Lefty Boot Camp’ sketch from Australian satirical news show, Tonightly, in which antiracists are admonished for the failures of ‘the left’. I argue that a lack of interest in the actual history of…
A speech by decolonial activist, Houria Bouteldja I translated appeared on Open Democracy. Read my preamble: “On 16 February the French ‘new philosopher’ Alain Finkielkraut was verbally abused by some protestors aligned with the Gilets Jaunes (‘Yellow Vest’) movement. They called him a ‘dirty Zionist’ and…