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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.

A René Cassin event on Monday 4 December 2023 at West London Synagogue, to mark the 75th anniversary of the UDHR.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer gave a speech on the Senate floor Wednesday addressing the rise of antisemitism in the U.S. Schumer, the nation's highest-ranking Jewish elected official, described the recent spike in antisemitic incidents as a "crisis" and a...

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.

Israel’s response to the 7 October Hamas attacks has emboldened many to say the once unsayable.

Bernard Harrison’s book Blaming the Jews: Politics and Delusion (Indiana University Press, 2020) is, we believe, a vital text. Questioning the assumption that antisemitism affects or targets only Jews, it demonstrates that when allowed to go unchecked, antisemitism is potentially damaging to us all.

The State Department’s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, the historian Deborah Lipstadt, says the prejudice is coming “from all ends of the political spectrum, and in between.” It threatens not only Jews, she says, but the stability of democracies.

It does not accurately describe either the foundation of Israel or the tragedy of the Palestinians.

Behnam Ben Taleblu, a native Farsi speaker, is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defence of Democracies, where he focuses on Iranian security and political issues. He speaks here with BICOM Director Richard Pater about the role of Iran in supporting its proxies, Hamas and Hezbollah, to wage war on Israel.

Yes, Ernst Jandl: Humanityyyyyy, we certainly could use a little bit of it. Since the attack of Hamas, I no longer know what this is supposed to be. It becomes a piece of paper on which many beautiful things have been written and then set on fire. And then the ashes, as perhaps in the case of Arthur Schnitzler’s divorce from his wife Olga before a Munich Rabbinic Court, the ashes were ground above the heads of the participants.