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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionWere Labour’s antisemitism failures really Corbyn’s fault?A leaked Labour report seems to provide evidence that it was in fact Corbyn’s opponents who delayed the disciplining...
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Published in: HomeChanged My Mind: a Jewish Labour activist on why he left the party“Anti-Semitism in the Labour Party is complicated because it is not what people traditionally imagine anti-Semitism...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKLabour should ditch the IHRA working definition of antisemitism altogetherWe need to understand the history of this attempt to define antisemitism.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKIn defence of (some) conspiracy theoryOf course powerful people organise together. Dismissing everyone who challenges them as "conspiracy theorists" is dangerous
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Published in: openDemocracyUKHow to break the impasse on Labour’s anti-semitism messLabour should adopt the IHRA code, with the Home Affairs Select Committee’s caveats
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Published in: openDemocracyUKCan the Corbynite left make peace with Zionism?How does the current Labour antisemitism debate relate to potential states in the Middle East?
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Published in: openDemocracyUKStop accusing the Jewish community of conspiring against the leftAntisemitism isn't just about individual intent. It's about culture and stories and practice, and the UK Labour...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe anti-semitism crisis shows the Labour leadership needs to get better at listeningTeam-Corbyn need to get better at listening – starting with the organised Jewish community.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Code of Conduct for Antisemitism: a tale of two textsIronically, it is the drafters of the Labour party’s NEC Code, not their critics, who have grasped the meaning of...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKDo we need a (legal) definition of anti-Semitism?Drawing on the IHRA definition without the problematic examples, the new code of conduct adopted by the Labour party...
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Published in: HomeZionism: the history of a contested wordThese polarising terms should be shelved, and taken out only when we are discussing political philosophy, which most...
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Published in: HomeApartheid references in IsraelThe attempt to outlaw the use of the term "apartheid" in relation to Israel and its occupation has to be recognised...
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Published in: Home‘Prevent’, free speech and antisemitismAs a talking point for debate it might be productive. The problem arises from the government of the United Kingdom...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Chilling effects: the politics of anti-semitism in the UKA former specialist adviser to the House of Commons Social Services Committee has written a detailed critique of the...
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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...
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Published in: HomeOne Israeli Zionist response to Mary Davis and Jonathan RosenheadThe real problem is that anti-Semitism has become an integral part of Palestinian and Arab nationalism, imported...
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Published in: HomeReply to Jonathan Rosenhead: ‘Is Zionist a rude word?’A distinction must in all cases be made between the state and civil society.
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Published in: HomeIs Zionist a rude word?“How are we to understand the amazing increase in rhetoric about antisemitism, quite divorced from any actually...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWe need to re-examine Corbyn's so-called 'dangerous friendships'Jeremy Corbyn has shared platforms with some arguably dubious people, but we shouldn't condemn his attempts at...
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Published in: HomeThe way out of the Labour Party’s ‘anti-Semitism crisis’ requires a politics of solidarityAccusations of systemic anti-Semitism in the UK Labour Party obscure the party’s actual history of anti-Semitism,...
