David Hirsh is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology, at Goldsmiths, University of London and Academic Director of the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism.
It is one thing to hold that political anti-Zionism, in the abstract, is protected — but quite another to say that Miller’s specific anti-Zionism is protected
The independent report is not shocking in the sense of surprising, to anybody who has been paying attention; but it is shocking in the moral and political senses
The sacking of Shaima Dallali is a positive sign. But elsewhere the picture remains bleak
By focusing on hypotheticals it ignores what antisemitism is really like
Miller and his defenders are forging an intellectual system which portrays the overwhelming majority of Jews and their community as a cunning, hidden, racist threat to the rest of society, writes David Hirsh
David Hirsh says the Labour Party must oppose those who fight for antisemitic politics - including Jewish members
The academic who coined the phrase 'Livingstone formula' on what the EHRC report reveals about Labour antisemitism
David Hirsh says that for many people the detail of the Corbynites' behaviour will be lost - so we need to make sure they understand the wider story
Populism threatens our democracy, writes David Hirsh
After an activist with the controversial left-wing group called Zionism 'a racist ideology' during antisemitism training, David Hirsh writes the group yearns to be radical but is just infantile
On antisemitism, Lord Sacks speaks for all but a tiny minority of Jews, says David Hirsh
The ex-London Mayor's case reflects the British left's institutional antisemitism, writes David Hirsh.
We don’t know if people just don’t care about antisemitism; or if they don’t know; or they don’t want to know; or they don’t understand
Save the rhetoric of betrayal for those who genuinely kosherise antisemitic politics, writes David Hirsh.
Ken Livingstone has spent his career pushing the view that Zionism and Nazism are effectively the same
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