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Month: December 2023

Hating Israel more than is necessary

There is an old Jewish joke – attributed to Sir Isaiah Berlin, but really, who knows? – that an antisemite is someone who hates Jews more than is absolutely necessary. Like all the best Jewish humour it is gently self-deprecating, mocking both Jews and antisemites, and recognising the bleak reality of anti-Jewish prejudice while refusing to buckle to it.

Interview with P.-A. Taguieff by Giulio Meotti, about his book The New Opium of the Progressives. Radical Anti-Zionism and Islamo-Palestinism.

Pierre-André Taguieff is a French philosopher who has specialised in the study of racism and antisemitism. He is the director of research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research at the Institut d’études Politiques de Paris Laboratoire. He is one of France’s leading writers about racism and on the ideology of the contemporary extreme right.

Opinion | I am a Zionist because I am a leftist, not in spite of that commitment

Jack Omer-Jackaman is the author of Caught Somewhere Between Zion and Galut: Zionism, Israel and Anglo-Jewry’s Identity, 1948-1982 (Vallentine Mitchell, 2019) and deputy editor of Fathom. This opinion piece was delivered as a paper at the inaugural conference London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism in September 2022.

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