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Brendan McGeever

@brendanmcgeever.bsky.social

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Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism Author: 'Antisemitism & the Russian Revolution' (CUP 2019) and 'Britain in Fragments' with Satnam Virdee (MUP 2023) 2024-25 Cornell Visiting Professor, Swarthmore College .. more

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Brendan McGeever @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social · Jul 11

Thank you for sharing, Lia!

Brendan McGeever @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social · Jul 11

Thanks for sharing, Sue!

Brendan McGeever @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social · Jul 11

Thanks for sharing and for the kind words, Ben!

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Sue Lukes @suelukes.bsky.social · Jul 11

Really interesting and valuable article vashtimedia.com/against-poli...

Against political purity: A reply to Eli Machover

The authors of Facing antisemitism argue for embracing the shifting ground of the Jewish community.

vashtimedia.com

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Ben Lorber @benlorber8.bsky.social · Jul 11

“We are in a historical moment in which key parts of the Jewish community are shifting: a moment in which the possibility of a politics of horizontal solidarity can be glimpsed.”

Brilliant Left meditation on fighting antisemitism in Britain

vashtimedia.com/against-poli...

Against political purity: A reply to Eli Machover

The authors of Facing antisemitism argue for embracing the shifting ground of the Jewish community.

vashtimedia.com

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Brendan McGeever @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social · Jul 11

"The politics of purity, of friend and enemy, with us or against us, does not serve the anti-racist movement but undermines it”

David Feldman (@dmf101.bsky.social), @bengidley.bsky.social and I reply to Eli Machover.

Grateful to @vashtimedia.bsky.social for hosting this discussion. (2/2)

Against political purity: A reply to Eli Machover

The authors of Facing antisemitism argue for embracing the shifting ground of the Jewish community.

vashtimedia.com

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Brendan McGeever @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social · Jul 11

“We are in a historical moment in which key parts of the Jewish community are shifting: a moment in which the possibility of a politics of horizontal solidarity can be glimpsed..." (1/2)

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Brendan McGeever @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social · May 27

Alongside our interview, Vashti has also published a critical assessment of our work by Eli Machover. Grateful to Vashti for hosting this debate. vashtimedia.com/response-to-...

‘The choice is one between anti-racism and Zionism as such’

A response to the authors of Facing antisemitism.

vashtimedia.com

Brendan McGeever @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social · May 27

Some reflections on the politics of 'anti-antisemitism' in Britain. An interview with David Feldman, Ben Gidley and me for @vashtimedia.bsky.social. vashtimedia.com/state-of-ant...

The state of anti-antisemitism

An interview with the authors of a new Runnymede Trust report.

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Ben Gidley @bengidley.bsky.social · May 23

The state of anti-antisemitism

An interview with @dmf101.bsky.social, @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social and me in @vashtimedia.bsky.social about our recent report on antisemitism for @runnymedetrust.bsky.social

vashtimedia.com/state-of-ant...

The state of anti-antisemitism

An interview with the authors of a new Runnymede Trust report.

vashtimedia.com

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Reposted by Satnam Virdee

Leo Lucassen @leol.bsky.social · Jan 30

Important new report on antisemtism in the UK and how to counter it.

'Facing antisemitism: the struggle for safety and solidarity'

By David Feldman, Ben Gidley, Brendan McGeever

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Brendan McGeever @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social · Jan 24

Thanks to @runnymedetrust.bsky.social for commissioning this report. You can read it in full here: ow.ly/LEp550UFjVP. 8/8

Facing antisemitism: the struggle for safety and solidarity

Antisemitism is hardwired into UK society, but current methods of tackling it are not working

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Brendan McGeever @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social · Jan 24

In short: we need a 360-degree anti-racism, one that confronts antisemitism alongside other forms of racism. And this will mean addressing the question of Palestine and the status and treatment of the Palestinians. 7/8

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Brendan McGeever @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social · Jan 24

Our report calls for a new approach to combating antisemitism: one based not on a hierarchy of racisms but on building alliances between Jewish people and other racialised minorities. 6/8

Brendan McGeever @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social · Jan 24

Current approaches to antisemitism at times also serve to racialise other minorities, especially Muslims. We see this in the way Jews are presented as a 'model minority' and antisemitism is cast as a specifically 'Muslim problem', not one embedded in society as a whole. 5/8

Brendan McGeever @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social · Jan 24

These divisions are made worse by the conflation of anti-Zionism and criticism of Israel with antisemitism. 4/8

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Brendan McGeever @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social · Jan 24

When the state and political parties put significant resources into combating antisemitic ideas but fail to act with similar force against Islamophobia or structural racism it confirms the perception of a hierarchy of racism. 3/8

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Brendan McGeever @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social · Jan 24

Antisemitism is deeply embedded into UK society. Policies to tackle it too often focus on the pathology of individual antisemites and not on the more widely diffused and persistent reservoir of antisemitism that exists in our political culture. 2/8

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Brendan McGeever @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social · Jan 24

Our new report on antisemitism has just been published. Co-written with David Feldman (@dmf101.bsky.social) and Ben Gidley (@bengidley.bsky.social), we argue current responses to tackling antisemitism are not working and are detrimental to anti-racist politics. ow.ly/LEp550UFjVP. 1/8

Facing antisemitism: the struggle for safety and solidarity

Antisemitism is hardwired into UK society, but current methods of tackling it are not working

ow.ly

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Brendan McGeever @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social · Nov 14

First post here. The violence in Amsterdam has been widely described as a ‘pogrom’. This is misleading and politically dangerous. It also does a disservice to Jewish history. My piece for @bylinetimes.bsky.social www.bylinesupplement.com/p/was-the-vi...

Was The Violence in Amsterdam an Anti-Jewish Pogrom?

Dr Brendan McGeever from the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism says the careless use of the word 'pogrom' does a disservice to Jewish history.

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