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 […]
The below was posted to the e-list of Critical Geography Forum on Thursday 25th April 2024. These words of the Anonymous Geographer deserve amplification and the fullest academic engagement. Avanti. Dear colleagues I feel the need, after months of observing from the sidelines of some of the debates on this forum, by colleagues on social […]
What do we mean by, and what’s the case for, a two states settlement in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict? On the academic and public Left, the history of this conflict is actually one of competing historical narratives, which differ in their selection and emphasis of key events and players. These historical narratives offer different perspectives on […]
Much of the British Left comprehends antisemitism as the exclusive property of the Right: either as a phenomenon of the far Right (fascists) against Jewish people, or as a false accusation by the Israeli Right and its allies against the Left to silence political criticism of Israel, or as an ironic bedfellow of the Israeli Right to justify its existence […]
“There can be no doubt that the One State idea gives its holders a moral satisfaction. Somebody told me: OK, perhaps it is not realistic but it is moral, this is where I want to stand. I respect this, but I say: this is a luxury we can’t afford. When we deal with the fate […]
At the age of nineteen, soon after I joined the organisation Alliance for Workers’ Liberty, I remember entering the students’ union at Newcastle University while being heckled by a member of the Socialist Workers’ Party, who called me “a fucking Zionist”. I confess, at that moment, I had no idea what the word Zionist meant, but I gathered immediately […]
The following podcast is based on my speech presented in a debate with Marcus Halaby of Workers’ Power at the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty Summer School in July 2010. Also, below this link, is a brief photo essay of what happened when Sheffield Workers’ Liberty comrades participated in a Palestine Solidarity Campaign rally in January […]
Anaemic On A Bike 