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The Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, University of London is a centre of innovative research and teaching, and contributes to public policy.
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The Green party’s policies on Israel are appealing to young British Jews | Letter
Letter: Prof David Feldman, Dr Ben Gidley and Dr Brendan McGeever from the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism say it is wrong to characterise Jewish support for the Greens as ‘paradoxica...
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The growing political divisions among British Jews - letter in The Guardian from BISA's David Feldman @dmf101.bsky.social, @bengidley.bsky.social and @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Join us online tomorrow to hear Diana Popescu speak on 'Jewish refugee artists in Britain: an untold story of visual resistance to fascism, 1930s–40s'. BISA lunchtime seminar, for more information and to register: bisa.bbk.ac.uk/event/jewish...
December 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Join us online tomorrow to hear Diana Popescu speak on 'Jewish refugee artists in Britain: an untold story of visual resistance to fascism, 1930s–40s'. BISA lunchtime seminar, for more information and to register: bisa.bbk.ac.uk/event/jewish...
On 9 December, join us online to hear Dr. Diana I. Popescu speak about ‘Jewish refugee artists in Britain: an untold story of visual resistance to fascism, 1930s–40s’. Book here: bit.ly/48zt3Uy
December 4, 2025 at 12:13 PM
On 9 December, join us online to hear Dr. Diana I. Popescu speak about ‘Jewish refugee artists in Britain: an untold story of visual resistance to fascism, 1930s–40s’. Book here: bit.ly/48zt3Uy
Speaking at BISA this evening, @dovwaxman.bsky.social on ‘The moral panic in America about antisemitism on college campuses’
December 2, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Speaking at BISA this evening, @dovwaxman.bsky.social on ‘The moral panic in America about antisemitism on college campuses’
In case you missed it, you can now watch @kenanmalik.bsky.social's lecture, 'How racism reclaimed its identity', here: youtu.be/oNOzOS4ACxo
@kenanmalik.bsky.social discussing race, identity and antisemitism at BISA this evening.
December 1, 2025 at 1:27 PM
In case you missed it, you can now watch @kenanmalik.bsky.social's lecture, 'How racism reclaimed its identity', here: youtu.be/oNOzOS4ACxo
BISA's @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social, co-author with David Feldman @dmf101.bsky.social and @bengidley.bsky.social, sets out the reasoning behind their recent letter to The Guardian
Why is support for the @greenparty.org.uk growing among British Jews and how do we understand this? A letter by @dmf101.bsky.social, @bengidley.bsky.social and me for the Guardian. 1/5
The Green party’s policies on Israel are appealing to young British Jews | Letter
Letter: Prof David Feldman, Dr Ben Gidley and Dr Brendan McGeever from the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism say it is wrong to characterise Jewish support for the Greens as ‘paradoxica...
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:43 AM
BISA's @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social, co-author with David Feldman @dmf101.bsky.social and @bengidley.bsky.social, sets out the reasoning behind their recent letter to The Guardian
Join us tomorrow to hear Prof. @dovwaxman.bsky.social discuss the problem of antisemitism on US campuses and how it has become a subject for political intervention and controversy. Book here: bit.ly/49Bp4Ia
December 1, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Join us tomorrow to hear Prof. @dovwaxman.bsky.social discuss the problem of antisemitism on US campuses and how it has become a subject for political intervention and controversy. Book here: bit.ly/49Bp4Ia
The growing political divisions among British Jews - letter in The Guardian from BISA's David Feldman @dmf101.bsky.social, @bengidley.bsky.social and @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
The Green party’s policies on Israel are appealing to young British Jews | Letter
Letter: Prof David Feldman, Dr Ben Gidley and Dr Brendan McGeever from the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism say it is wrong to characterise Jewish support for the Greens as ‘paradoxica...
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:21 AM
The growing political divisions among British Jews - letter in The Guardian from BISA's David Feldman @dmf101.bsky.social, @bengidley.bsky.social and @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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November 24, 2025 at 2:35 PM
📜 Our 2025 bulletin is live! Read a message from our incoming president @bengidley.bsky.social, a report from this year's conference, details of our book prize, the CFP for our 2026 conference @bisa-bkk.bsky.social, reports from institutions & more
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Join us on 2 December to hear Prof. @dovwaxman.bsky.social on ‘The moral panic in America about antisemitism on college campuses’. Book here: bit.ly/49Bp4Ia
November 27, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Join us on 2 December to hear Prof. @dovwaxman.bsky.social on ‘The moral panic in America about antisemitism on college campuses’. Book here: bit.ly/49Bp4Ia
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Packed house at @bisa-bkk.bsky.social for a brilliant lecture by @kenanmalik.bsky.social on the deep roots of the re-emergence of white identity and mainstreaming of racism
November 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Packed house at @bisa-bkk.bsky.social for a brilliant lecture by @kenanmalik.bsky.social on the deep roots of the re-emergence of white identity and mainstreaming of racism
@kenanmalik.bsky.social discussing race, identity and antisemitism at BISA this evening.
November 18, 2025 at 6:51 PM
@kenanmalik.bsky.social discussing race, identity and antisemitism at BISA this evening.
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Tomorrow I’m giving a talk at the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism (@bisa-bkk.bsky.social) on “How racism reclaimed its identity”. Do come along bisa.bbk.ac.uk/event/how-ra...
How racism reclaimed its identity | Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism
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November 17, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Tomorrow I’m giving a talk at the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism (@bisa-bkk.bsky.social) on “How racism reclaimed its identity”. Do come along bisa.bbk.ac.uk/event/how-ra...
An article by David Feldman @dmf101.bsky.social, @bengidley.bsky.social and @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social published today.
More Jewish people in Britain are concerned by general racism than the number who are worried by antisemitism. This is a building block for anti-racist politics, write three Birkbeck experts. @bisa-bkk.bsky.social
The difficult truth about antisemitism
Why don’t we acknowledge that there are different ways of measuring the prevalence of anti-Jewish prejudice?
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
October 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
An article by David Feldman @dmf101.bsky.social, @bengidley.bsky.social and @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social published today.
Antisemitism: how to measure it, how to confront it. Read BISA’s David Feldman @dmf101.bsky.social, @bengidley.bsky.social and @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social in www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/religi...
The difficult truth about antisemitism
Why don’t we acknowledge that there are different ways of measuring the prevalence of anti-Jewish prejudice?
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
October 21, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Antisemitism: how to measure it, how to confront it. Read BISA’s David Feldman @dmf101.bsky.social, @bengidley.bsky.social and @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social in www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/religi...
Join us online this Wednesday (22 Oct, 13:00 BST) to hear Profs. Devorah Baum and Stephen Frosh discuss the interplay between Jewish Studies and psychoanalysis. Book here: bisa.bbk.ac.uk/event/psycho...
October 20, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Join us online this Wednesday (22 Oct, 13:00 BST) to hear Profs. Devorah Baum and Stephen Frosh discuss the interplay between Jewish Studies and psychoanalysis. Book here: bisa.bbk.ac.uk/event/psycho...
Check out BISA's autumn 2025 events programme on our website bisa.bbk.ac.uk/whats-on/eve.... We’ll be hearing from Professors Stephen Frosh and Devorah Baum on ‘Psychoanalysis and Jewish Studies’ online on 22 October. Sign up here to join us: bisa.bbk.ac.uk/event/psycho...
October 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Check out BISA's autumn 2025 events programme on our website bisa.bbk.ac.uk/whats-on/eve.... We’ll be hearing from Professors Stephen Frosh and Devorah Baum on ‘Psychoanalysis and Jewish Studies’ online on 22 October. Sign up here to join us: bisa.bbk.ac.uk/event/psycho...
In case you missed it...
A thoughtful post in @politicalquarterly.bsky.social on Diane Abbott, antisemitism and the complex ways in which race is imagined and understood.
By three scholars of antisemitism: @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social, @bengidley.bsky.social and David Feldman.
politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/diane-a...
By three scholars of antisemitism: @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social, @bengidley.bsky.social and David Feldman.
politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/diane-a...
Diane Abbott's Suspension Highlights the Complexity of Different Types of Racism
Rather than a zero sum approach, we need a 360 degree politics of solidarity.
politicalquarterly.org.uk
August 19, 2025 at 10:03 AM
In case you missed it...
The challenge of developing an anti-racist politics that is universal and sensitive to the experience of different minorities. Read David Feldman @dmf101.bsky.social, @bengidley.bsky.social and @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social in @prospectmagazine.co.uk
Antisemitism is racism. But it “no longer carries the same degree of structural consequences as other racisms in Britain. This is the element of truth contained in Dianne Abbott’s ill-judged letter,” write three @bisa-bkk.bsky.social academics.
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The truth in Diane Abbott’s ill-judged remarks
Politicians need to find better of ways of thinking about racism—and of acting against it
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
July 30, 2025 at 9:21 AM
The challenge of developing an anti-racist politics that is universal and sensitive to the experience of different minorities. Read David Feldman @dmf101.bsky.social, @bengidley.bsky.social and @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social in @prospectmagazine.co.uk
Diane Abbot, anti-Black racism, antisemitism - read David Feldman @dmf101.bsky.social, @bengidley.bsky.social and @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social in @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/identi...
The truth in Diane Abbott’s ill-judged remarks
Politicians need to find better of ways of thinking about racism—and of acting against it
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
July 29, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Diane Abbot, anti-Black racism, antisemitism - read David Feldman @dmf101.bsky.social, @bengidley.bsky.social and @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social in @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/identi...
Read BISA's David Feldman @dmf101.bsky.social, @bengidley.bsky.social and @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social in @vashtimedia.bsky.social on how Jewish politics is in flux and why Jewish people and Jewish organisations should build the widest possible anti-racist coalition.
"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."
@dmf101.bsky.social, @bengidley.bsky.social, and @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social reply. vashtimedia.com/against-poli...
@dmf101.bsky.social, @bengidley.bsky.social, and @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social reply. 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
July 14, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Read BISA's David Feldman @dmf101.bsky.social, @bengidley.bsky.social and @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social in @vashtimedia.bsky.social on how Jewish politics is in flux and why Jewish people and Jewish organisations should build the widest possible anti-racist coalition.
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"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."
@dmf101.bsky.social, @bengidley.bsky.social, and @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social reply. vashtimedia.com/against-poli...
@dmf101.bsky.social, @bengidley.bsky.social, and @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social reply. 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
July 11, 2025 at 1:59 PM
"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."
@dmf101.bsky.social, @bengidley.bsky.social, and @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social reply. vashtimedia.com/against-poli...
@dmf101.bsky.social, @bengidley.bsky.social, and @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social reply. vashtimedia.com/against-poli...
We're looking forward to hearing from Eliana Hadjisavvas tomorrow, discussing Jewish detention and displacement in the British Empire after WWII. If you haven't booked yet, please get in touch to receive a link to join us: bisa.bbk.ac.uk/event/detent...
On 10 June, join us online to hear BISA’s Eliana Hadjisavvas explore the complexities of empire, race and migration after the Second World War. More information here: bisa.bbk.ac.uk/event/detent...
On 10 June, join us online to hear BISA’s Eliana Hadjisavvas discuss Jewish detention and displacement throughout the British Empire in the aftermath of WWII. More information here: bisa.bbk.ac.uk/event/detent...
June 9, 2025 at 9:49 AM
We're looking forward to hearing from Eliana Hadjisavvas tomorrow, discussing Jewish detention and displacement in the British Empire after WWII. If you haven't booked yet, please get in touch to receive a link to join us: bisa.bbk.ac.uk/event/detent...
On 10 June, join us online to hear BISA’s Eliana Hadjisavvas explore the complexities of empire, race and migration after the Second World War. More information here: bisa.bbk.ac.uk/event/detent...
On 10 June, join us online to hear BISA’s Eliana Hadjisavvas discuss Jewish detention and displacement throughout the British Empire in the aftermath of WWII. More information here: bisa.bbk.ac.uk/event/detent...
June 2, 2025 at 11:06 AM
On 10 June, join us online to hear BISA’s Eliana Hadjisavvas explore the complexities of empire, race and migration after the Second World War. More information here: bisa.bbk.ac.uk/event/detent...
On 10 June, join us online to hear BISA’s Eliana Hadjisavvas discuss Jewish detention and displacement throughout the British Empire in the aftermath of WWII. More information here: bisa.bbk.ac.uk/event/detent...
May 20, 2025 at 10:54 AM
On 10 June, join us online to hear BISA’s Eliana Hadjisavvas discuss Jewish detention and displacement throughout the British Empire in the aftermath of WWII. More information here: bisa.bbk.ac.uk/event/detent...
There’s still time to register to hear BISA’s @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social discuss ‘Pogroms, politics and memory: rethinking anti-Jewish violence from the Harlem Renaissance to October 7th’ online TODAY at 1pm (BST). More info here: bisa.bbk.ac.uk/event/pogrom...
May 14, 2025 at 10:09 AM
There’s still time to register to hear BISA’s @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social discuss ‘Pogroms, politics and memory: rethinking anti-Jewish violence from the Harlem Renaissance to October 7th’ online TODAY at 1pm (BST). More info here: bisa.bbk.ac.uk/event/pogrom...