Antisemitism and Anti-Racism
The flawed definition threatens not only the fight against antisemitism, but Palestinian self-determination, academic freedom and our right to criticise the Israeli government.
History
The Israeli PM’s plans to appoint an anti-Palestinian racist to lead Yad Vashem conveys the danger of particularising the Shoah, writes Naomi Magnus.
Culture
Considering Jewish, Black, and Palestinian writers' visions of persecution and liberation across the universe.
Palestine-Israel
What constitutes ‘legitimate’ and ‘illegitimate’ criticism of Israel is determined by individuals who believe BDS and discussion of Israeli apartheid to be beyond the pale.
Palestine-Israel
A network of government-funded NGOs are pushing the definition in an effort to redefine antisemitism and quash Palestinian dissent.
History
Remembering the queer, anti-Nazi art of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore.
Palestine-Israel
69 years after their village was razed on Christmas Eve, these Palestinians are determined not to let the pandemic prevent them from celebrating and mourning on their ancestral land.
The Jewish Left
At Sage in Golders Green, staff are demanding fair wages and working conditions. British Jews could view this as a threat to our elders – or as fundamentally in our interests.
Culture
A new documentary considers whether exposure to video footage of the plight of Palestinians can change the hearts and minds of Israel’s fiercest advocates.
The Far Right
Like a schlubby Jewish Virgil, the American journalist leads readers of her new book through the circles of white supremacist hell.
Antisemitism and Anti-Racism
The former Labour leader understands far better than his successor, who suspended him this week, that racism is born of a broken world - one we must utterly transform.
History
Cemetery- and grave-measuring were part of a female clerical role in Ashkenazi Jewish life, and powerful tools of ancestral connection.