Too many, far too many, leftists cheered the 7th October – a phenomenon I explore in my talk, ‘Decolonization is not a metaphor’. As the anniversary of the horror of the 7th October 2023 approaches (a horror which should not be negated by all the horror thereafter in Gaza), I am reminded of this article […]
“The Zionist entity is burning down the UK to defend the genocide in the Gaza” (Press TV, 2024) I demonstrate in my book Outcast (Bassi, 2023) how a dominant body of academic left literature on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict pitches Zionism as the globalising crucible and exporter of colonialism, imperialism, social dispossession, injustice, repression, and racism everywhere. Zionism (including all […]
My paper, ‘When “the trans question” meets “the Jewish question”: on the dangers of a nature essentialist material world’, will soon be published in the journal Sexualities. Abstract: This paper advances a Marxist approach to the idea of “human nature” – bound not to a fixed essence, but to sensuous human activity and social transformation […]
“[W]hat is a cost allocation death spiral, and why does it matter so much to universities at the moment? It’s about management not understanding the limits of their own accounting systems and so destroying their own organisations.” (Mills, 2024) “Universities’ management systems are not up to that task. They are often made up of ex-academics […]
Multiracism by Professor Alastair Bonnett, Not So Black and White by Kenan Malik and Outcast by Dr Camila Bassi, while in some respects very different books, share one common goal: to expand our enquiry and understanding on the nature of racism and the anti-racist project. Multiracism is an empirically rich exploration that traverses the globe to re-conceptualise the origins and trajectories […]
Let’s start with some fundamental political positions: 1948 was the moment when Israeli Jews took up the right to national self-determination on territory already occupied by Palestinian Arabs, and 1948 (the Nakba) was the moment when Palestinian Arabs were denied their right to national self-determination on the same territory; the Israeli state and military occupation […]
This presentation explores the fusion of anti-trans ideology with ‘the Jewish question’. It seems remarkable to me that those who see and call out antisemitism on the Left have remained so silent for so long about a mainstream propaganda text of gender critical feminism ridden with a transphobic and antisemitic conspiracy theory.
