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Solidarity with Gaza is not antisemitic - Death to hypocrisy

Dave Kellaway — 2025-07-05T07:21:17Z

The mass movement for solidarity with the population of Gaza and of Palestine worldwide is labelled antisemitic and subject to repression both collectively by the banning of Palestine solidarity organizations (Palestine Action in Britain labelled as terrorist, threat of dissolution against Urgence Palestine in France for example) and against individuals including many academics sacked for denouncing the Israeli genocide in Gaza.

- IVP606 - July 2025 / Palestine, Britain, antisemitism

Defend the right to protest

Roland Rance — 2025-01-26T17:26:21Z

Roland Rance critises the ramping up of the state's determination to further criminalise protest and calls for action to fight back

- IVP600 - January 2025 / Palestine, Britain, antisemitism

Cause at Heart: Socialists & the Abolition of Antisemitism

Alan Wald — 2024-07-26T13:42:52Z

Safety Through Solidarity: A Radical Guide to Fighting Antisemitism By Shane Burley and Ben Lorber. Brooklyn: Melville House, 2024. 375 pages. $19.99 paperback. Zionism: An Emotional State By Derek J. Penslar New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2023. 321 pages. $21.30 paperback. The Threshold of Dissent: A History of American Jewish Critics of Zionism By Marjorie N. Feld New York: New York University Press, 2024. 279 pages. $30 hardback. Tolerance is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial By Saree Makdisi Oakland, California: California University Press, 2022. 228 pages. $29.49 hardback. Colonizing Palestine: The Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba By Areej Sabbagh-Khoury Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2023. 348 pages. $75.00 hardback.

- Reviews section / United States (USA), Israel, Reviews, antisemitism

When the accusation of antisemitism becomes a weapon in the hands of neofascism

Gilbert Achcar — 2024-07-04T10:43:11Z

“A very telling case in relation to all this is the announcement by Amichai Chikli, one of Netanyahu's ministers and a member of his Likud Party, that the entire Israeli government rejoiced for the victory achieved by the Le Pen's party in the first round of the French parliamentary elections last Sunday. ”

- IV594 - July 2024 / antisemitism

Revisiting the Jewish question

Jonah ben Avraham — 2021-11-06T06:54:57Z

I once heard an anecdote about a Jewish comrade walking into his first meeting of a new socialist organization in the United States and asking a friend who the other Jews were in the room. The friend pointed out a handful of people—about a third, perhaps half of the room—to which the comrade responded, “This is the most goyische [non-Jewish] socialist meeting I've ever seen.”

- Reviews section / Marxism, Reviews, antisemitism

On “antisemitism”

Roland Rance — 2020-08-11T06:16:00Z

One specious argument that those of us active in Palestine solidarity hear time after time is the hoary line that “Jews are not really Semites, so why say that they are the victims of antisemitism”, or its many variants, such as “Palestinians are Semites too”.

- IV547 - August 2020 / Anti-racism and Islamophobia, antisemitism