Why Explain Antisemitism?

Dr. Dave Rich is one of the United Kingdom’s leading experts on antisemitism. He has worked for almost thirty years for the Community Security Trust, a Jewish charity that protects the UK Jewish community and writes about antisemitism and extremism for a range of national and international media.

The aggregation of evidence collected by Dr. Cochav Elkayam-Levy and her Civil Commission presents a horrifying picture that leaves no room for doubt: On October 7, Hamas terrorists systematically carried out acts of rape and sexual abuse. She has discovered, however, that there is no rush to acknowledge this abroad.

An interesting interview with Philip Spencer, who in the past was a member of the Socialist Worker’s Party. Originally in French, translated by google.

Niall Ferguson is a trustee of the University of Austin, as well as Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford. He is the author of, among many works, The War of the World: History’s Age of Hatred (Penguin).

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.