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While antisemitism in the U.K. has certainly risen, politicians and the media are deliberately inflaming sensationalist narratives for a repressive agenda.
If you were a non-Jewish person living in the United Kingdom and didn’t know any better, you might think Jews are currently deserting (…)
Notion of Muslim-controlled areas unsafe for white people has been promoted by rightwingers since the early 2000s
The claim by a former government minister earlier this week that parts of London and Birmingham with large Muslim populations are “no-go areas” has highlighted the enduring myth (…)
“We can use this to get the discussion of mass deportations into general conversation and wake up some sheeple," gushed one activist on a far-right Telegram channel. Others, meanwhile, called on Suella Braverman and Rishi Sunak to also deport themselves.
Far-right organisations influencers (…)
According to David Miller, the former University of Bristol sociology professor, it is a “fact” that “Jews” are “overrepresented in positions of cultural, economic and political power”, and are “therefore in a position to discriminate against actually marginalised groups.” Miller says that Jews (…)
South Asian garment workers in Leicester are resisting precarity and institutionalised racism in Britain’s “hostile environment” for immigrants.
The Rana Plaza tragedy happened 10 years after the International Labour Organization (ILO) declared April 28 as World Day for Safety and Health at (…)
There’s no question that British politics is becoming more diverse. From only four minority ethnic MPs elected in 1987, now 67 MPs are from a minority ethnic background.
The Scottish first minister, Humza Yousaf, recently became the first minority ethnic leader of a devolved government and the (…)
The illegal migration bill makes much of the Nationality and Borders Act redundant.
The illegal immigration bill has generated endless controversy on its way to becoming law. The bill, which effectively bans asylum seeking in the UK, has faced heavy criticism for its treatment of children, its (…)
The legacy of racism in both the United States and the United Kingdom has impacted the ability of Blacks and other ethnic groups to accumulate wealth.
It’s an old saying that Britain and America are two countries separated by a common language.
But they are united by racial wealth gaps that (…)
The policing bill deliberately targets Roma, Gypsy and Traveller people, criminalising them if they move – and if they stop
At last, we are waking up to the astonishingly oppressive measures in the police, crime, sentencing and courts bill, intended to criminalise effective protest. At last, (…)
We have been accused of erasing history – but that’s impossible. All we did was shine a light in places people don’t want lights to shine
On 7 June 2020, I was part of a group of protesters who pulled down a statue of the slave trader Edward Colston and threw it into the Bristol harbour. I (…)
Jurors were asked to rule that Edward Colston’s heinous crimes were immaterial, but they chose to put themselves on the right side of history
There were cheers from the public gallery of Bristol crown court when the verdicts of not guilty were returned. Eighteen months after Bristol’s now (…)
Rhian Graham, Milo Ponsford, Sage Willoughby and Jake Skuse found not guilty over act of public dissent during Bristol protest
Anti-racism campaigners have hailed a jury’s decision to clear protesters responsible for toppling a statue of the slave trader Edward Colston as a huge step in (…)
The historian and TV presenter on the story of former slave Olaudah Equiano and the significance of Black History Month in the UK.
Historian and broadcaster David Olusoga has been the face of a decolonial turn in British broadcasting that, in recent years, with series including the (…)
Boris Johnson owes his position as Prime Minister to institutional racism writes Andy Stowe.
Johnson was the public face of the Brexit campaign which galvanised racists with its slogan about 76 million Turkish citizens entering Britain if the country remained in the European Union.
This (…)
Social and economic changes have pushed people into ‘reluctant individualism’
First, the good news. Britons see inequality as a major problem and divide broadly along traditional political lines in their attitudes towards it. Then, the bad news. Britons are also inclined to see inequalities (…)
Claims about the failure of multiculturalism are persistent yet, they are also consistently inaccurate.
Black Lives Matter (BLM) has generated a momentum for tackling racism, but it has also provoked questions about what kind of approaches can help address issues of discrimination. One (…)
This wouldn’t happen to any other minority” has been a rallying cry for the Labour party’s fiercest critics of its handling of the antisemitism crisis. It’s certainly true that the specific characteristics of antisemitism have sometimes resulted in the British left’s reluctance to see it in the (…)
JVL Introduction
Steve Cohen’s pamphlet, That’s Funny, You don’t look Antisemitic, first appeared in the early 80s. It was republished by Engage twenty years later as part of a campaign against the call for an academic boycott of Israel – a campaign which suggested that antisemitism (…)
It felt like 1968. It looked like the birth of a new mass movement of the oppressed. Neil Faulkner, Namaa Al-Mahdi, and Federica Dadone report back from the Black Lives Matter demonstrations in London and Cardiff.
What has emerged are two possible worlds, which exist in opposition to one (…)
It’s rare that a single image expresses an ideal as complex as ‘justice’. That isn’t for want of trying, of course. Lady Justice, blindfolded and holding the scales of consequence aloft, is a mainstay in popular metaphor, her figure adorning law courts around the world. In London she stands atop (…)
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