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 […]
Geographical: How geography matters in understanding the politics of lingering antisemitism
See here for my Geographical magazine piece.
Can biophilia save humanity and planet Earth?
Image from Wikimedia Commons: School strike for climate, Sydney, 2019.
The Geography of Vaccine Politics
Image from Wikimedia Commons: The Cow-Pock—or—the Wonderful Effects of the New Inoculation!—vide. the Publications of ye Anti-Vaccine Society, 1802 “In this cartoon, the British satirist James Gillray caricatured a scene at the Smallpox and Inoculation Hospital at St. Pancras, showing cowpox vaccine being administered to frightened young women, and cows emerging from different parts of people’s bodies. The cartoon […]
Racism beyond the colour line
Diane Abbott’s comments published in The Observer on 23rd April 2023 differentiate between prejudice and racism, and claim that white people can experience prejudice but not racism. She cites the examples of “redheads”, alongside “Irish people, Jewish people and Travellers” – all of whom were not victims of South African apartheid or the racism of […]
Outcast: How Jews Were Banished from the Anti-Racist Imagination
NO PASARAN MEDIA | 15th June 2023 | NON FICTION | RRP £9.99 | C.Bassi@shu.ac.uk | media@nopasaran.media | Outcast is an explanation of how Jewish people’s experiences of racism have been cast out of the anti-racist imagination, as the very possibility of recognising anti-Jewish racism has been displaced by the commonplace leftist belief that when […]
Left antisemitism, gender critical feminist transphobia, and the (il)logic of essentialism
“Any demand that people clearly be men or women, let us be clear, is the patriarchal world view. But from the view that sex is material, that biological sex is immutable, comes a requirement that bodies line up, to appear as men or women. Biological sex is used to create a social line, that we have the right, even moral […]
The Geographical Fate of Pandemics
Image from Wikimedia Commons: The plague of Florence in 1348, as described in Boccaccio’s Decameron.
Anaemic On A Bike 