“Only war makes it possible to mobilize all of today’s technical resources while maintaining the property system.”

- Walter Benjamin, 1936

About Antony Lerman

Antony Lerman is the former Director of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research and founding editor of "Antisemitism World Report", published yearly from 1992-1998. He blogs at http://antonylerman.com/
and Tweets at @tonylerman

Articles by Antony Lerman

Anti-semitism, Israel and Nationalism, Part 3/3

Antony Lerman and Tony Curzon Price 30 March 2013

Antony Lerman in conversation with Tony Curzon Price around Lerman's political memoir, The Making and Unmaking of a Zionist - A personal and political journey. Part 3, 25 mins.

Anti-semitism, Israel and nationalism, part 2/3

Antony Lerman and Tony Curzon Price 29 March 2013

Antony Lerman in conversation with Tony Curzon Price around Lerman's political memoir, The Making and Unmaking of a Zionist - A personal and political journey. Part 2, 30 mins.

Anti-semitism, Israel and nationalism, part 1/3

Antony Lerman and Tony Curzon Price 29 March 2013

Antony Lerman in conversation with Tony Curzon Price around Lerman's political memoir, The Making and Unmaking of a Zionist - A personal and political journey. Part 1, 37 mins.

Günter Grass, antisemitism and the inflation of evil

Antony Lerman 16 April 2012

The Israel factor has politicised the business of assessing antisemitism such that the vitriolic disagreement surrounding it has become about far more than just facts, intelligent judgment and expertise. What does Israel, what does anyone gain from this?

9/11 and the destruction of the shared understanding of antisemitism

Antony Lerman 14 September 2011

The links between the Israeli far right and Islamophobic groups in Europe follow a certain inexorable logic of the post 9/11 world. These alliances, encapsulated as well as encouraged by the redefinition of the "new antisemitism", make it very hard for Israel to overcome the monomaniacal war spirit of 9/11

Israel and the anti-boycott law: the wider implications of popular indifference

Antony Lerman 19 July 2011

The motivation for the law is not primarily to give voice to the sentiments of the Israeli-Jewish majority, although it relies on the existence of those sentiments to achieve its goal - and that is something altogether more far-reaching.

"Racism" or "Racist incident", what's the difference? UCU and the EUMC ‘working definition’ of antisemitism

Antony Lerman 7 June 2011

Is it good to pretend that racism can be identified simply with reference to the victim's perception of racism? The Macpherson report into the conduct of the police in investigating the killing of Stephen Lawrence is being mis-read

Celebrity anti-semitism teaches us very little about the reality of prejudice

Antony Lerman 10 March 2011

Galliano, Sheen, Assange: three unrelated episodes of alleged celebrity antisemitism have been transformed into a story of a general resurgence of prejudice. But does the story stand up to careful examination?

The pro-Israel lobby in Britain: Antony Lerman's foreword

Antony Lerman 13 November 2009

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