Daniel Ben-Ami
from London / 304 postsI am responsible for the Radicalism of Fools site. My current focus is anti-Semitism but I have specialised in several different topics as a journalist. Email me at daniel@radicalismoffools.com
Abbott row misses key point
Neither the Labour MP nor her critics seem to understand what makes anti-Semitism a distinctive form of racism
Why anti-Semitism has surged
The surge in anti-Semitism in recent years is closely related to the emergence of a degraded form of politics
How lies go viral
Anti-Israel activists all too often just see what they want to see while ignoring inconvenient facts
How Israel was turned into the fount of all evil
The relentless demonisation of the Jewish State is fuelling a vicious new anti-Semitism.
Yes, I was once an anti-Zionist
Why over the decades I have radically changed my stance in relation to Israel
Not ‘Turkeys for Christmas’
Anti-Israel activists are proponents of a reactionary ideology rather than simply naive
Why the hysteria now
The possibility that Israel might finally vanquish Hamas has driven the terrorist organisation and its international fans to hysterics
On the Arts First podcast
I was delighted to appear as a guest on the Arts First podcast to discuss the murderous attack on Salman Rushdie and...
Don’t let anti-Israel bigots pose as free-speech champions
The ‘pro-Palestine’ crowd’s selective defence of freedom of expression is hypocritical and self-serving.
Jews cast as the devil
A look at the historical origins of the enduring idea that Jews represent a diabolical force
France’s anti-Semitism conundrum
A new biography of Alfred Dreyfus helps explain how anti-Semitism emerged in French society despite the country’s professed attachment to equality and rights
Quarterly Review of anti-Semitism - April 2025
Once again attention this quarter has focused more on Israel and its relations with the surrounding region rather than anti-Semitism in the diaspora. The actions of the...
Underestimating the depravity
Simon Schama’s documentary on The Road to Auschwitz powerfully portrays the extent of non-Jewish complicity in Nazi killing but ends up underestimating the Holocaust’s depravity