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.
Daniel Ben-Ami
from London / 310 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
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
The essence of anti-Semitism
Central to anti-Semitism is the idea that Jews are the personification of evil
The flawed historicist take on anti-Semitism
A British academic has provided a valuable critique of the view of anti-Semitism propagated by many historians influenced by identity politics
Beyond free speech
Free speech means being allowed to express outrageous views but it does not extend to physical intimidation or destruction
The World After Gaza: turning the Holocaust against Israel
Pankaj Mishra's polemic features what may be the most shameful minimisation of 7 October committed to print.
The left’s historic capitulation to anti-Semitism
The radical left’s blindness to anti-Semitism and its view of Jews as fundamentally racist goes back well before Israel’s establishment
The ‘Jews as Jews’ code
Anti-Zionists typically make the disingenuous claim that they cannot by definition be anti-Semitic
Our Fight conference remarks online
My remarks at the recent Our Fight conference on Remaking the Promise of Never Again are now available to watch online (see...
The ‘what about Islamophobia?’ question
A new report fails to grapple with what distinguishes anti-Semitism from other forms of racial thinking
The tragic myth of ‘never again’
The idea that there was a promise of 'never again' to the Jewish people after the horrors of the Holocaust is sadly untrue