antisemitism

Ken Livingstone, Labour and the fight against antisemitism

Everyone should stand against the attempt to force the Labour Party to expel Ken Livingstone.

University bans Palestine meeting from campus after pressure from pro-Israeli group

A university has cancelled a meeting hosted by a Friends of Palestine student society after lobbying from a pro-Israeli organisation.

Never again! The horror of the Holocaust

Tomáš Tengely-Evans looks at what created the Nazi genocide—and how to make sure it’s not repeated

Right wing report accuses the left of antisemitism

A parliamentary report into antisemitism argues that 75 percent of antisemitic abuse and attacks are perpetrated by the far right.

Labour lifts suspension for Jackie Walker, but plots in Lambeth

Labour Party activist and Momentum vice chair Jackie Walker has been readmitted to the party. She had been suspended after claims of antisemitism.

Suspended Labour member says 'How dare they accuse me of racism?'

Suspended Labour Party activist Jackie Walker has spoken out against accusations of antisemitism.

Speaking out against the slur of antisemitism

10 May 2016
Antiracists met in London last night, Monday, for a meeting on antisemitism, Zionism and the left.

LETTERS: We need to put the politics back into the Pride march

10 May 2016
Since 2004 the London Pride LGBT+ march has increasingly become a parade for its corporate sponsors. It is far removed from its historical roots as a militant demonstration celebrating the Stonewall Riots of 1969.

Labour witch hunt has a dual purpose

03 May 2016
What's driving the Labour right’s assault on Jeremy Corbyn over antisemitism—sheer opportunism or ideology? Certainly the former. Even BBC Radio 4’s Today programme briefly took time off from feeding the frenzy over Ken Livingstone’s remarks to concede that “Livingstone is a proxy for Corbyn”.

Tories' racist shame—they are the real racists

03 May 2016
David Cameron said last week, “Antisemitism is like racism, it is unacceptable.” Cameron is a hypocrite. In the same week as he attacked Labour’s supposed antisemitism, he was backing the Tory candidate for London mayor Zac Goldsmith.

Tories have a long, nasty history of antisemitism

03 May 2016
Papers with a long line in scapegoating are committed to opposing antisemitism. Good. No longer is picturing a man of Jewish heritage looking strange eating a bacon sandwich a story.

Racism row in the Labour Party - myths and reality

03 May 2016
Is it racist to oppose the Israeli state? Does a Zionist lobby shape policy? Tomáš Tengely-Evans explains it all

Livingstone, Labour and the fight against racism

29 April 2016
Tomáš Tengely-Evans and John Rose look at the response to accusations of antisemitism in the Labour Party

Is the left to blame for antisemitism ?

26 April 2016
The ruling class is desperate to undermine Jeremy Corbyn and the broader left. Nick Clark looks at the real agenda of right wingers who have accused anti-racists of antisemitism

GALLERY - London Stand Up to Racism demonstration

19 March 2016
Twenty thousand people marched through London today to say refugees are welcome and to reject racism, Islamophobia, antisemitism and scapegoating.

Fascism—a movement of despair

15 December 2015
Socialist Worker argues that fascism is about more than racism or authoritarianism—it’s a movement that aims to smash the working class and all democratic rights

France is in political turmoil after the Paris massacre

13 January 2015
A week of political turmoil has gripped France in the wake of the terrorist attacks that killed 17 people in Paris last week. Troops have been deployed on to the streets.

Criticism of Israel does not equal antisemitism

12 August 2014
On the back of Israel’s vicious assault on Gaza, there has been growing debate about whether we are witnessing a rise in antisemitism.

French comic Dieudonné is a bigot, but the minister trying to ban him is no anti-racist

14 January 2014
Headlines in France have focused for several weeks on home secretary Manuel Valls’s efforts at banning antisemitic comedian Dieudonné.

Judaism and antisemitism

03 February 2007
Understanding the economic role of Jews in the Middle Ages is crucial if we are to understand the history of Jewish persecution, writes Beccy Reese