A chapter I wrote for in Tatour, L. and Lentin, R. (eds.) Race, Israel and the Colonization of Palestine. Palo Alto CA: Stanford University Press. Introduction For many years I didn’t want to write about antisemitism. When I brought out my short primer, Racism in 2008, my editor asked me to include a…
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I was honoured to be invited back onto the Millennials are Killing Capitalism podcast to be interviewed about The New Racial Regime by the brilliant Jared Ware and Joshua Briond. As I told them during our chat, I could not have written the book without their podcast which is amply…
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I published an article in Mondoweiss arguing against ‘Jewish safety’ as rhetorical support for genocide, building on arguments I make in Chapter Five of The New Racial Regime. Claims that “antisemitism” is being weaponized to support Israel miss that its function has always been to bolster European supremacy. Today, the…
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I was invited to present at the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) at Manchester University in April. My talk presents the main arguments in the fifth and final chapter of The New Racial Regime: Recalibrations of White Supremacy. A recording is available here. Following Cedric Robinson’s discussion of…
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I really enjoyed this conversation with Adnan Husain about my new book The New Racial Regime. Adnan is an expert of Medieval Mediterranean and Islamic World History, Christian, Muslim, Jewish interfaith relations, Whirling Leftist, Spiritual Materialist, Scholar Activist, A Host of Guerrilla History Podcast and The Adnan Husain Show, Left…
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PARCEO is a community research, resource, and education centre. They partner with groups to strengthen our collective work for justice. Recently they invited me to reflect on something I had written in Why Race Still Matters (2020): For White Jews such as myself (…) we must recognize the ways in which…
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I was asked to speak at an important event organised by the Italian University workers for Palestine Network to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day on 27 January 2025, Proteggere la Memoria: la Shoah, Gaza e la storia (Protect Memory: the Shoah, Gaza and History). 27 January has been the annual International Day of…
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A 3-part interview I did with Radio Blue Mountains Rights, Rorts and Rants show in May 2024.
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I am delighted to hare the recording of my conversation with Anna-Esther Younes, chaired by Max Haiven at the Hopscotch Reading Room in Berlin in June 2023!
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Since its adoption in 2016, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) ‘working definition of antisemitism’, has been primarily used to censor pro-Palestinian activism and scholarship. The definition has been amply critiqued for its vague formulation of antisemitism: “a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews.” More…
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Happy New Year! I was delighted that 2022 ended with a two-part interview on one of my favourite podcasts, the incredible Millennials are Killing Capitalism. Josh Briond, one of the duo that runs the podcast along with Jared Ware, reached out to me some time back to inquire if I’d…
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