Keith Kahn-Harris is a London-based sociologist and writer. He teaches at Birkbeck College, Leo Baeck College and is a Fellow of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research. His most recent book is ‘Uncivil War: The Israel Conflict in the Jewish Community’. His website is kahn-harris.org and he tweets on @KeithKahnHarris.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKA crack in history? – a conversation between two recent UK Labour party recruitsWe need to find a way to build political movements that make space for difficult questions, for diversity, for ambivalence. But how?
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Published in: HomeThe antisemitism reports: against a zero-sum readingIt is how texts are read, not texts themselves that determine meaning. Applying this post-modernist lesson to the Chakrabarti and Home Affairs Committee antisemitism reports yields new political possibilities.
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Published in: HomeBetter-off siding with Russia or China: there's no dictator's dilemma today
Democracy promotion by the west has been a grubby, hypocritical affair. Is there any hope for doing it properly?
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Published in: HomeInternal and external factors in intra-Jewish conflict over Israel and antisemitismSince 2000, the questions of Israel and antisemitism have become a source of ever greater conflict in British Jewry, as well as in other diaspora Jewish populations.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKIs Corbyn too pally with tyrants and other pariahs?
Why is it so hard for the left, both pro and anti-Corbyn, to resist the logic of "my enemies' enemies are my friends"? Can we learn to cast a plague on the houses of enemies of progress whoever they are?
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Published in: HomeOn the strangeness of contemporary antisemitism
Can we agree on one thing? That contemporary antisemitism is profoundly strange.