The rise in antisemitic incidents in the UK has been more dramatic than before. Debates on how to talk about Israel and the lines between antisemitism and anti-Zionism have intensified. The current moment focuses on responses to a dreadful slaughter.
We’ve seen upsurges in antisemitism before. Does this feel similar or different to you? From the U.K., at least, it feels different, and it feels different in two ways. One is that I think the rise in antisemitic incidents recorded by the police over the last three weeks or so, since the 7th of October, has been more dramatic than anything we’ve experienced in the past. And also, as you’ll know, in recent years we’ve had—and not just in the U.K.
but in other countries in Europe as well—debates and arguments about how to talk about Israel, the lines between antisemitism and anti-Zionism, and what definitions are helpful. This has been happening since the war in Gaza in 2006. But this war is on a much greater scale, and of course was preceded by a massacre in Israel. Whereas previous instances were chiefly about how we should talk about events going on in Israel-Palestine, the current moment is about responses to dreadful slaughte
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