Alana Lentin - openDemocracy

We are not at Place de la République because…

Participants in the counter-demonstration organised in Ménilmontant, Paris on February 19 explain their protest against “the instrumentalization of antisemitism by pro-Zionist politicians.”

By Alana Lentin and Houria Bouteldja

/ 28 Feb 2019

We are not at Place de la République because…

Participants in the counter-demonstration organised in Ménilmontant, Paris on February 19 explain their protest against “the instrumentalization of antisemitism by pro-Zionist politicians.”

By Alana Lentin and Houria Bouteldja

/ 28 Feb 2019

The good conscience of French intellectuals: the case of Thomas Guénolé and the French left of Jean-Luc Mélenchon. An open letter

Our right to live freely in the Diaspora is under attack, from both Christian and Zionist supremacism.

By Alana Lentin

/ 14 Dec 2017

The good conscience of French intellectuals: the case of Thomas Guénolé and the French left of Jean-Luc Mélenchon. An open letter

Our right to live freely in the Diaspora is under attack, from both Christian and Zionist supremacism.

By Alana Lentin

/ 14 Dec 2017

Austerity and war against multiculturalism

Understanding how austerity, sexism, multiculturalism and racism become intertwined discourses. Part of the Anti-Austerity and Media Activism series.

By Alana Lentin

/ 21 Jun 2016

The Crises of Multiculturalism

Ironically, working through the idiom of multicultural failure is a form of political correctness; a way of talking about issues of migration, identity, power, belonging, legitimacy and socio-political anxiety while steering clear of a lexicon associated with the overt history of a shameful, racis

By Alana Lentin and Gavan Titley

/ 18 Jul 2011

Shilpa Shetty and Celebrity Big Brother

The racism meted out to Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty, on the Channel 4 television programme Celebrity Big Brother has (at the time of writing) provoked 27,000 complaints to Ofcom,

By Alana Lentin

/ 18 Jan 2007

The intifada of the banlieues

It is November 2005 and the banlieues of France are returning to troubled calm. For almost three weeks young men of immigrant origin, mainly black African and (Arab) north African,

By Alana Lentin

/ 17 Nov 2005

Multiculturalism or anti-racism?

What we should be talking about is how we reach an integrated society, one in which people are equal under the law, where there are some common values. (Trevor Phillips,

By Alana Lentin

/ 1 Sep 2004