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Ben Gidley Profile picture
@bengidley
Apr 26, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
1/x Malcolm—who died just over a year ago—touched my life in many vital ways.

His decision to focus on his passion frontline youth work instead of research opened up the first job I got at @thecucr, and (after the late, great Pete Pope) was the second person I interviewed as…
…a professional researcher. Those interviews with him & Pete orientated the whole of the first decade of my research career, and I often think of their generosity. Later, he was instrumental in creating the first research project I worked on full time, in Deptford, born out of…
…his commitment to embedding critical research in community organising, both to keep practitioners reflective & to hold power to account.

He was a strong supporter of the Pepys Portrait project I worked on with Simon Rowe & Francesca Sanlorenzo, probably my favourite project…
Malcolm also played a key part in the #Lewisham77 commemoration I organised in 2007 with @Transpontine and the late Paul Hendrich. It breaks my heart how many people involved in that fantastic project are no longer with us.

(Account from @_pasttense_: )pasttenseblog.wordpress.com/2019/08/13/tod…
As a youth worker, he also touched my son’s life: working with the Young Mayor, Malcolm inspired Lewisham’s young people to get involved in local democracy and realise the power they had to shape our community positively, even if only incrementally.
My last memory of Malcolm is a coffee in the sunshine in Herne Hill: a very articulate and perceptive rant about gentrification in South London.

Most of us can only hope to have a fraction of the positive impact on as many individuals as he did. Rest in power Malcolm. Z”l.
PS see this great remembrance by Diarmuid Breatnach for @indefenceyw of Malcolm’s youth work at the Riverside on Pepys, Deptford: @AcademicDiary @Transpontineindefenceofyouthwork.com/2021/04/05/rem…
“In that case where are the Kalishnakovs?”

I love this recollection of Malcolm by Tony Taylor: @indefenceywchattingcritically.com/2021/03/19/mal…
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May 21, 2022
This is a thread about the Buffalo shooter, who slaughtered 10 people and injured three in a horrific racist attack last Sunday. I’ve read large chunks of the killer’s so-called manifesto and dipped into his diaries and Discord logs, and these are some observations.

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A quick ethical note: I will not name the shooter or link to or even screenshot any of this material.

The killer’s texts illustrate four of the features of today’s international far right scene that I think are especially important.👇🏼
1/ Anti-black & anti-Jewish racisms are intertwined and cannot be understood separately.
2/ We need to left-right convergence.
3/ Gender-related ideologies are key to current fascist formations.
4/ Authoritarian state disinformation networks both feed & use far right radicalism.
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Oct 3, 2021
Bristol University professor David Miller finally terminated.

Three thoughts:
First, as David Feldman says, his comments on Jews, including, crucially, Jewish students, aren’t just textbook antisemitism but also a clearcut case of harassment. It’s not an academic freedom issue, it’s about fitness to do a job in a diverse classroom. haaretz.com/israel-news/da…
Second, as @KeithKahnHarris convincingly argues in this great @ThinkJew piece, Miller’s scholarship isn’t worth defending. It’s not sociology; it’s conspiracy theory. The usefulness of his work on Islamophobia is limited because it is flat and ahistorical.
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May 6, 2021
Government source says French threats against Jersey are worse than Nazi occupation: “At least the Nazis kept the lights on.”

The ignorance & denialism about history here is shocking. The scale of violence in the Channel Islands, occupied June 1940 until 9 May 1945, was vast…
“At least the Nazis kept the lights on.”

The Jews of Jersey were registered within weeks of the Nazi occupation, then had their businesses appropriated, then their homes, and then were deported to the concentration camps and death camps of the Nazi empire, mostly to Auschwitz.
“At least the Nazis kept the lights on.”

Islanders who weren’t locally born were deported en masse to Germany, where many died in prisons and labour camps. Dozens of islanders were sent to concentration camps for resisting the occupation.
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Nov 3, 2020
David Feldman (@PearsInstitute), @b_mcgeever & I have written in the Guardian about the #EHRC's Labour antisemitism report, standing back from the factional tumult to understand what the findings mean for anti-racism. theguardian.com/commentisfree/… Here’s a thread summarising it:
2/ The noise and emotion in the aftermath of the report have drawn attention from its substance beyond the top line that Labour has been found responsible for harassment and discrimination. In the piece we draw out the implications for anti-racist politics in Britain
3/ It is now untenable to say that the volume of antisemitic narratives circulating among Labour member can be measured by cases alone. The cases were the tip of an iceberg, and didn’t include likes and retweets on social media. What does this say about Labour’s culture?
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Nov 12, 2019
Looking forward to speaking at the @UKJewishFilm screening of @alexandre_amiel’s “Why do they hate us?” at @JW3London on Thursday night, alongside @marievanderzyl (@BoDPres), @joanryanEnfield and @Tom_Godwin.

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1/9 Was an honour to speak at the @UKJewishFilm screening of @alexandre_amiel’s “Why do they hate us?” @JW3London. A great film on anti-Jewish racism in France (part of a trilogy also exploring anti-Arab and anti-Black racism)
2/ Couple of things I took away from the film:

a. how French republican secularism (laïcité) forces people to chose singular identities which causes a sense of “schizophrenia” and encourages the corrosive cultivation of invisibility that Jews resort to from fear of antisemitism;
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