Antisemitism is a real force, it's really alive, and the forces that care about racism aren't really doing stuff about it.
about antisemitism is sort of targeted as a right-wing thing.
of antisemitism in the big magazines, they couldn't get hired in the big ad agencies
to push back against antisemitism , which was not something I was so used to before.
And because antisemitism has been sort of tarred with the brush-- anti-antisemitism , as it were-- has been tarred with the brush of being
the state of antisemitism in the UK and the world, where do you get pause for optimism, if at all?
woman talking positively about anti-antisemitism .
I hopefully think that those people who would just ignore antisemitism would somehow at least call
in Britain, for antisemitism to become a talking point, a set talking point on "News Night" and stuff and so that people in wherever-- they talk about Workington man.
And Islamophobia is still rife, but also antisemitism and so many other forms of hate.
Labour Party was starting to become more and more called out for antisemitism or as there was more and more fuss about it,
And I say in the book that one of the weird things that happened with antisemitism over the last sort of 20 years
of what it was that drove him to write this book and how he thinks about the sort of world of antisemitism ,
We started a campaign, in fact, in 2010 about antisemitism in football.
It's just one of sort of eight or nine examples that begin the book of how antisemitism is not on the same radar for progressives
So what you have to do and what's important in this conversation is where's the antisemitism .
the minute you get that kind of conspiratorial talking, it's revealed as antisemitism .
But Workington man is not someone who I would think of as antisemitism being on their radar.
Well, at least that shows that the British public don't like antisemitism .
But you should still be allowed to say, this is how I perceive antisemitism and the racism against my minority.
or whatever, people who are concerned about that stuff, in my opinion, there's been a weird neglect of concern about antisemitism in the way
Chelsea and Arsenal and Millwall and West Ham, whatever, all use the word, as well, in an extremely negative way with add-on extreme antisemitism -- hissing to suggest gas chambers
at Sheffield University, where he is, he always kind of ignored the antisemitism because he didn't feel able to claim Jewishness as an identity, that
It's an antisemitic notion that Jews have to sort of place their cards on the table about Israel before they're allowed to talk about antisemitism .
It's kind of a statement of like, look, there's lots to say about antisemitism .
but certainly the last five years, because of Corbyn, is you've got this weird thing where speaking out about antisemitism and being concerned
And for whatever reason, which I think is complicated to know, antisemitism always spirals in those places.
That is a really tricky question when you're dealing with the historical time, because-- well look, we're interested in the fact that antisemitism is part of the conversation of our show.
And it morphed with a journalist called Wilhelm Marr, quite a distinguished journalist, who invented the term antisemitismus, and who basically