Labour's Antisemitism Crisis: What the Left Got Wrong and How to Learn from It

ISBN-13: 9780367722159 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 220 str.

David Renton

Opis

Between 2015 and 2020 the Labour Party was riven by allegations that the party had tolerated antisemitism. This important book by one of Britain’s leading historians of anti-fascism gives a more detailed account than any yet published of what went wrong in Labour.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. The Uniqueness of Antisemitism  3. Naz Shah and the Cause of Palestine  4. Ken Livingstone and the Crimes of Zionism  5. Jews and the Slave Trade  6. Seeing No Evil: Trump and the US Right  7. Seeing No Evil: Corbyn and the Mear One Mural  8. Jewdas and the Figure of the Bad Jew  9. The Labour Left and the Israel Lobby  10. The Labour Right and Anti-Zionist Jews  11. The Bullying of Luciana Berger  12. Fighting the Rich, Without Fighting Jews  13. From the Edge of the Anti-War Movement  14. Israel’s Eastern European Allies  15. On Gatekeeping  16. Antisemitism and Black Emancipation  17. Conclusion

O autorze

David Renton is a British historian and barrister. His other books include No Free Speech for Fascists: Exploring ‘No Platform’ in History, Law and Politics (Routledge 2021) and Never Again: Rock against Racism and the Anti- Nazi League 1976– 1982 (Routledge 2019).