UK Politics

47 posts

The left’s best weapon

Johnson is going down, and wants to take the left with him.

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5 Min
By: Ilyas Nagdee

Sisterly hatreds

Why are transphobes so often antisemitic?

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4 Min
By: Naomi Cohen

Why we’re still fighting antisemitism on the right’s terms

The controversy at the NUS shows we must fight antisemitism within a broader anti-racist struggle that combats the right’s attempts to rule through division.

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6 Min
By: Em Hilton

Stop calling Cummings a 'svengali' – and not just because it's an antisemitic trope

We’re raging against the man, not the machine.

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3 Min
By: Anya Metzer

Starmer is serious about antisemitism – but not other racisms, it seems

Starmer has adopted the Board of Deputies’ Ten Pledges and with them, the Board’s disregard for forms of racism beyond Jew-hatred.

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3 Min
By: Aron Keller

Coronavirus demands justice, not charity

‘North West London – COVID-19 Support For The Vulnerable’, one of the roughly 1,500 mutual aid groups established around the UK in the past fortnight, already has over 7,000 members. Each day, dozens offer and request alleviation of life under lockdown, with varying degrees of Jewishness. “My near 90

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5 Min
By: Vashti Editors

Boris Johnson’s BDS ban must be opposed – not least by British Jews

The law would forbid even boycotts focused solely on the occupation, thereby framing opposition to the occupation as opposition to Israel as a whole.

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5 Min
By: Tommer Spence

It isn’t an easy time to be a new Jewish Labour MP - but it’s an important one

At this dark hour, the Jewish left must not shrink away. Our resolve to build an anti-racist movement must be hardened.

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3 Min
By: Charlotte Nichols

Don't be fooled, Brexit is a Jewish issue

Brexit is a Conservative attempt to overturn the internationalist legacy Jews have so heavily relied on. Why then does our communal leadership seem unbothered by it?

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4 Min
By: Joseph Finlay

Left populism doesn't create antisemitism - it's our best hope of fighting it

Jews cannot be told that Corbyn’s programme is incompatible with the fight against antisemitism.

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5 Min
By: Matthew Richmond

Labour must treat antisemitism as a human problem, not just a political one

From the back-benches to the front, Corbyn has fought for Jewish freedoms; yet it’s this fighting spirit that has made him an intractable elder statesman who struggles to admit wrongdoing.

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7 Min
By: Rivkah Brown

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