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David Hirsh

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David Hirsh is a Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London.

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Bitesize | Why I am pulling out of the Israeli Government antisemitism conference

By David Hirsh
 In this Fathom bitesize read, David Hirsh explains why he withdrew from the International Conference on Combating Antisemitism... Read more > March 2025

Trotskyist reverberations: antisemitism, Stalinism, liberalism (Preface to 'Mapping the New Left Antisemitism: The Fathom Essays')

By David Hirsh
 This preface begins with a consideration of the common political heritage, in Trotskyism, of the editor and creator... Read more > January 2025

Opinion | The Meaning of Diane Abbott’s Astonishing Letter

By David Hirsh
 Leading Corbynite Labour MP Diane Abbott has had the party whip withdrawn after writing in The Observer that... Read more > April 2023

Antisemitism and the University of London: Statement by David Hirsh

By David Hirsh
 A debate is raging at Goldsmiths, University of London after the President of the Student Union tweeted that... Read more > July 2022

Fathom Long Read | The Meaning of David Miller

By David Hirsh
 According to Bristol University Professor David Miller, ‘Britain is in the grip of an assault on its public... Read more > March 2021

It was the new phenomenon of Israel-focused antisemitism that required the new definition. David Hirsh responds to a recent ‘call...

By David Hirsh
 40 UK-based Israeli academics, broadly from the anti-Zionist left, have issued a ‘call to reject’ the IHRA Working... Read more > January 2021

Opinion | Jews are asking for protection from their universities from antisemitism. David Feldman’s ‘All Lives Matter’ response is not...

By David Hirsh
 This is a response to an article by David Feldman, ‘The government should not impose a faulty definition... Read more > December 2020

The UK Election 2019 | Corbyn’s legacy is that political antisemitism has re-entered the British mainstream

By David Hirsh
 David Hirsh, author of Contemporary Left Antisemitism argues that Corbyn’s movement has left behind many thousands of people... Read more > December 2019

The Corbyn left: the politics of position and the politics of reason

By David Hirsh
 Abstract This paper is about a preference within contemporary left-wing culture for defining opponents as not belonging rather... Read more > Autumn 2015

Book Review | Jews and the Left: The Rise and Fall of a Political Alliance

By David Hirsh
 Social theorists sometimes enjoy treating the ‘now’ as the key turning point of history; they like it because... Read more > Winter 2015

Book Review: Rebels Against Zion

By David Hirsh
 In the first half of the 20th century, most Jews failed to find their way to a successful... Read more > Winter 2014

Defining antisemitism down

By David Hirsh
 When the UCU rejected the EUMC Working Definition of antisemitism which states that some kinds of criticism of... Read more > Winter 2013

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