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Dr Philip Mendes is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Work, Faculty of Medicine at Monash University. His new book Jews and the Left: The Rise and Fall of a Political Alliance, is published by Palgrave Macmillan.

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Reversing the victims and perpetrators of racism: the use of blaming the victim strategies to minimise and deny the antisemitism...

By Philip Mendes
 Philip Mendes examines the conclusions of an inquiry held by the Australian Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights,... Read more > April 2025

Prejudice in the Academy: An analysis of the parliamentary inquiry into antisemitism at Australian Universities

By Philip Mendes
 Professor Philip Mendes is the Director of the Social Inclusion and Social Policy Research Unit in the Department... Read more > December 2024

‘Zionists have no right to cultural safety’: The Australian BDS movement’s transition from racist ‘anti-Zionism’ to xenophobic anti-Semitism

By Philip Mendes
 Philip Mendes is Director of the Social Inclusion and Social Policy Research Unit in the Department of Social... Read more > June 2024

Book Review | My Life as a Jew

By Philip Mendes
 Michael Gawenda is a well-known Australian journalist. He was editor of the centre-left Melbourne Age for seven years... Read more > March 2024

Progressive except for Jews (PEJs): The Australian Greens and the 7 October Hamas Death Squad Massacre

By Philip Mendes
 Following 7 October the Greens were the only Australian political party that refused to support a federal parliamentary... Read more > February 2024

The jibe ‘Progressive except for Palestine (PEP)’ is a cynical political strategy to exclude moderate progressives from debates on resolving...

By Philip Mendes
 In this essay, Philip Mendes argues that the new buzzword for Palestinian nationalists, 'Progressive except for Palestine,' aimed... Read more > November 2021

‘The Monash Soviet’ and Israel: A case study of how the Australian campus far left lost its way after the...

By Philip Mendes
 For a half century, for good and for ill, Western universities have been incubating world views which go... Read more > June 2021

How the BDS movement is poisoning academic discourse: a case study of Henry Maitles and Critical and Radical Social Work

By Philip Mendes
 The academic Left, influenced by the Boycott, Divestment and Sections (BDS) movement, is abandoning core academic standards when... Read more > February 2019

Book Review│Australia & Israel: A Diasporic, Cultural and Political Relationship

By Philip Mendes
 Australia and Israel are superficially the oddest of couples. They are geographically distant, and massively different in size.... Read more > Autumn 2015

Jews and the Left

By Philip Mendes
 Dr Philip Mendes is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Work, Faculty of Medicine at Monash... Read more > Spring 2014

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