Briefing Note on the Campaign Against Antisemitism

With the misnamed Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) in the news, find below a short briefing on the organisation I co-authored back in 2019. The briefing was submitted as an appendix in Jewish Voice for Labour’s submission to the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC). The EHRC was then investigating complaints of anti-Jewish harassment and discrimination…

DELUGE – NYC launch

New York City, 10 April, feat. Norman Finkelstein, Colter Louwerse, Mouin Rabbani, and Slavoj Žižek. I'm grateful to all the panelists and audience members who attended, and to Razia Iqbal for chairing. Technical issues prevented my Zooming in, but Razia was there to invest my introductory comments with her oratorical flair. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn715Q0sP_k DELUGE: Gaza and…

Deluge now shipping

DELUGE: Gaza and Israel from Crisis to Cataclysm is now shipping. I was pleased to discuss the book with the excellent Jadaliyya: The book emerged from a conviction that any serious attempt to understand the significance and causes of the 7 October bloodshed, as well as the genocidal Israeli offensive that followed, had to begin…

DELUGE: New Book on Gaza

My edited book on the catastrophe in Gaza is now available for pre-order. Published by OR Books, with a foreword by Avi Shlaim. DELUGE: Gaza and Israel from Crisis to Cataclysm “Indispensable... a tour de force” - Norman G. Finkelstein "First-rate analysis... a truly important antidote" - John J. Mearsheimer "Comprehensive and compassionate" - Cornel…

A Response to Anneliese Dodds MP on Gaza

Anneliese Dodds MP (Labour, Oxford East) has sent by email the following statement on Gaza: Dear constituent, Thank you for writing to me to raise your concerns about the situation in Israel and Gaza. I know many people living in Oxford who have family and friends in Gaza and in Israel, or have simply been…

Fighting Amalek in Gaza

Israel’s allies have claimed that it “is not deliberately trying to kill civilians” (US National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby) and is “taking every precaution to avoid harming civilians” (UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak). Such claims are hard to square with the massive devastation Israel has inflicted. As of 10 November, over 11,000 people in…

Interview: Finkelstein and Rabbani on Gaza

I interviewed Norman Finkelstein and Mouin Rabbani about where things stand one month on from the Hamas-led attack. Read the full discussion here.

‘We Deserve to Live, Too’

In 2018, tens of thousands of people in Gaza marched nonviolently to end Israel's suffocating blockade. In response, Israeli snipers positioned along Gaza's perimeter methodically maimed and killed them. Olfat al-Kurd is a field researcher in Gaza for Israel's leading human rights organisation B'Tselem. Olfat al-Kurd, B'Tselem Field Researcher in Gaza During the 2018 demonstrations,…

Adam Keller Warns: Genocide Is On the Table

Adam Keller of Gush Shalom has been a peace activist in Israel since 1969. He always advised those accusing Israel of 'genocide' that this was hyperbole. But he now sounds an urgent warning: [T]he idea of Genocide has now entered the public agenda in the State of Israel, and there is every justification to use…

Gaza’s Last Stand?

My article on the unfolding disaster was published at Byline Times: The Chinese word for “crisis” may not, in fact, comprise the characters for “danger” and “opportunity”. But previous Israeli leaders have well understood the importance of seizing the moment. In the late 1930s, David Ben-Gurion—Zionist leader and later Israel’s first prime minister — considered…