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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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, […]