‘Why is there among the groups so hostile to Israel no comparable hostility, no demands to boycott and ostracise, polities which commit far more, and far more serious, violations of human rights?’ asks Eve Garrard, Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Manchester.

Her speech to the Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism’s event ‘Israel and Antisemitism in Britain: Now and in the Future’, is this week’s Fathom Highlight.

In it, Garrard tackles the simplistic argument that people are ‘pushed’ to antisemitic actions by the behaviour of the State of Israel.

Our voice of the week is Matti Friedman’s keynote address to the BICOM annual dinner (a text version of the speech is also available here).

Our image of the week is of members of Israel’s LGBT community protesting a Jewish Home Party event in Tel Aviv, 12 January 2015. Photo by Gili Yaari/Flash90.

Anti-Judaism, Anti-Zionism, Antisemitism

by Eve Garrard | February 16, 2015