Writer, cook, runner, author of Whatever Happened to Antisemitism? Redefinition and the Myth of the 'Collective Jew'
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Feb 13, 2023 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
You can read my Independent op-ed on the flawed report on #antisemitism in the NUS by signing up for free. independent.co.uk/voices/new-ant… Here's a thread of takeaways from the piece.
Lawyer Rebecca Tuck KC was commissioned by the National Union of Students to report on allegations of #antisemitism in the NUS. Published last month, her report's findings are deeply flawed.1/14
Jun 26, 2022 • 18 tweets • 10 min read
A short thread on key arguments in my new book Whatever Happened to Antisemitism? Redefinition and the Myth of the ‘Collective Jew’ which you can buy direct from Pluto Press here /1 plutobooks.com/9780745338774/…
Discussion about #antisemitism is plagued by confusion and bitter argument. In his endorsement of my book @PeterBeinart calls contemporary debate on it ‘both incoherent and appalling . . . a hot mess.’/2
Jul 11, 2019 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
A short thread with initial critical thoughts on #BBCPanorama’s 10 July ‘Is Labour antisemitic?’ ‘investigation’ 1/10
#BBCPanorama wasn’t an ‘investigation’. It was the case for the prosecution. Very many Jewish members of @UKLabour have vastly different and positive experience of membership from those interviewed. Shouldn’t a fair investigation have interviewed some of them too? 2/10
