The London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism is releasing a three-volume book about October 7 and its aftermath. The editors and contributors worked urgently through the winter holidays to produce this set of responses, designed to be both intellectually rigorous and accessible to a general audience.

The book will be launched on 3 June at the University of Westminster. Members of the public are invited.

David Hirsh, founder of the LCSCA, said: “There is, said Arendt, an alliance between the elite and the mob. The universities are the intellectual front line and The London Centre defends Jews, as well as the values of reason, democracy and the rule of law on this terrain.”

Edited by Hirsh and professor Rosa Freedman of Reading University, the book includes the text of the Robert Fine Memorial Lecture, delivered on October 22 by novelist and JC columnist Howard Jacobson.

Among the contributors are Anthony Julius, who writes about what changed after 7 October, and American historian Jeffrey Herf, an expert on Nazi propaganda in the Arab world, whose essay focuses on the genocidal ideology of Hamas.

Topics include the claim that Israel is committing “genocide”, the laws of war, and the relationship between of anti-Zionism and more familiar anti-Jewish ideologies.

The work contains a number of feminist critiques of the attack and its apologists and cheerleaders around the world.

To attend the book launch on June 3 at the University of Westminster, visit the Eventbrite website