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.
On Wednesday 8th May 2024, Anonymous Geographer 2 emerged on the e-list of the critical geography academic forum (Crit-Geog-Forum) to, following Anonymous Geographer, call out anti-Jewish racism in the discipline. Their words (in full below) are, like those of Anonymous Geographer, insightful, measured, and very much worthy of engagement. All too often the accusation of […]
This is a recording of the presentation which I gave to the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism (BISA) on 12th December 2023.
Reference: Camila Bassi (2023) Geography, antisemitism and Zionism, Geography, 108:3, 130-133, DOI: 10.1080/00167487.2023.2260220
This is a recording of the talk given to the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism (LCSCA) on 13th September 2023.
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 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 […]
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, […]
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Anaemic On A Bike 