‘The Zionist entity is burning down the UK’: on conspiratorial creep in academia

“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 […]