Month: April 2021

Following in the wake of the murder of George Floyd, I witnessed Jewish organisations (mostly in America, but also in the UK) taking a public stance on anti-black racism almost immediately and standing in solidarity with their fellow black communities. In doing so, what became especially apparent is that there is an overlap in these… Continue reading 119 Colourful Recommendations

What I find generally very difficult to explain – and also what people find hard to hear – is that there are antisemitic tropes that are used by both white supremacists (no surprise there) but also by leftist intersectional anti-racists. One stubborn trope is the issue of double loyalty, loosely defined by ‘you say you… Continue reading Beyond double loyalties

In conversations on identity politics and the position of Jews within it, I have often thrown in some form of ‘let’s not compare too much with the US’. Since the European context is socially and historically quite different, we should not import uncritically the American discourse into our conversations here. Still, when previewing documentaries for… Continue reading Shared Legacies