Video: Racism and antisemitism in the hostile environment

Yuval-Davis, N. and Gidley, Ben and Begum, S. (2025) Video: Racism and antisemitism in the hostile environment. [Video]

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Recording from SSAHE March 2025 webinar featuring Nira Yuval Davis, Ben Gidley and Shabna Begum. Mainstream politicians today are all in agreement that antisemitism is an evil that needs to be combated – even while making alliance with far right and authoritarian populist movements that themselves promote antisemitic narratives. The “Great Replacement Theory”, a conspiracy theory proposing that Jews are orchestrating mass migration from the global South, has become a stable of the rhetoric an increasingly mainstream right-wing politics. How can we respond to antisemitism without creating a hierarchy of racism? How can we build deeper solidarity between those in struggle against antisemitism and those in struggle against other forms of racism, including Islamophobia and anti-migrant racism? Can we build a politics of anti-antisemitism that is not carceral and punitive? How can we respond to the ways in which the right has used antisemitism as a political football in its culture wars against the left and against minorities in the UK? This webinar focuses on antisemitism in the UK as a form of racism, and how the anti-racist and migrant solidarity movement should respond to it. Building on earlier webinars on identity politics and culture wars, on the state imposition of definitions of racism, and on the criminalisation of protest (including Palestinian solidarity protest), in this session we build our analysis of contemporary antisemitism and suggests ways forward. and harm that antisemitism inflicts on Jewish people.

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