Geography, antisemitism and Zionism
Reference: Camila Bassi (2023) Geography, antisemitism and Zionism, Geography, 108:3, 130-133, DOI: 10.1080/00167487.2023.2260220
Author: camilabassi
Outcast: Interventions and Interlocutions (LCSCA Seminar)
This is a recording of the talk given to the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism (LCSCA) on 13th September 2023.
LCSCA Prize for Best Book on Contemporary Antisemitism 2023: Outcast
My wholehearted gratitude to the judges and the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism for this recognition and book award. Amid a despairing time, which has fully exposed what Robert Fine and Philip Spencer (2017) refer to as the Left’s “inequitable economy of compassion”, the work of the Centre and all the research […]
To the author of the silly book
The below exchange took place on Crit-Geog-Forum: “a forum for the discussion of critical and radical perspectives in geography”. It followed my original post advertising the online launch of my book Outcast: How Jews Were Banished from the Anti-Racist Imagination. Ashok writes: “It’s stomach-churning to define Zionism as a desire for a Jewish homeland without […]
Critical Academia and Conspiracy Theories
I teach a final year module on Globalisation. This past year, in the last session of this module, one of my most engaged students challenged my dismissal of conspiracy theories. He drew a similarity between the academic critique of power, hegemony, capitalism, and globalisation and the purpose of conspiracy theories to not accept reality but […]
Philip Cohen’s Perversions of Inheritance
To make the issue of in/visibility depend on physical appearance is to bracket out the historical realities of racist representation “And that is the point. Visibility is socially constructed and can change over time. For example, Irish immigrants were singled out by the authorities as a specially ‘dangerous’ class in the 1850s, whereas in the […]
Why antisemitism on the Left is inevitably racist
In Daniel Randall’s review of my book for our shared organisation Workers’ Liberty, he raises the following critique: “One cannot hold water in one’s hands; a too fluid conception of the construction and reconstruction of “race” risk depriving it of any explanatory value whatsoever. In my own book, Confronting Antisemitism on the Left: Arguments for Socialists, […]
Book launch recording of Outcast: How Jews Were Banished from the Anti-Racist Imagination
See the No Pasaran Media website for more information about both authors and books.
Antisemitism as racism
This is a recording of the “Antisemitism as racism” panel with myself, Dr Dave Rich and Professor Dibyesh Anand at the University of Westminster on 11th May 2023.
Imperial boomerang: what Hannah Arendt actually said
“Political theorist Hannah Arendt, in The Origins of Totalitarianism, argued that racialisation and territorial expansion – two practices inherent to imperialism – laid the foundations for European fascism. Totalitarianism in Europe was an outcome of what Arendt termed the ‘imperial boomerang’. Similarly, poet and theorist Aimé Césaire argued in Discourse on Colonialism that Hitler ‘applied to Europe colonialist procedures […]
Anaemic On A Bike 