GUEST POST: Anti-Semitism as cultural capital for radicals
Anti-Semitism has become a key signifier of progressive credentials for the radical middle class
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GUEST POST: Arendt’s judgements on Israel
The great German-Jewish political thinker was fiercely critical of mainstream Zionism but unequivocally supported Israel’s right to defend itself
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...
GUEST POST: A tale of two universities
America’s elite universities have reacted in different ways to the Trump administration’s drive against campus anti-Semitism
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.
GUEST POST: Columbia controversy escalates further
The elite New York university is taking tougher action against disruptive anti-Israel protestors while facing federal funding cuts for allowing discrimination against Jewish students
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