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No foothold for racists
I was thrilled to stand on O’Connell Street on Saturday 6 February as part of a large coalition of people, Irish and migrants, who congregated in front of the GPO to say no to racism and Islamophobia and to counter Pegida Ireland’s plans to hold its inaugural meeting. Pegida stands for ‘Patriotic Europeans against the…
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Criticising Israel is not the same as being anti-Jewish
An op ed article David Landy and I wrote for The Irish Times The recent calls to expel former London mayor Ken Livingstone from the British Labour Party have created a worrying alliance between those who use accusations of anti-Semitism to silence critics of Israel and those who use them to attack supporters of the…
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Race counting and the Irish census
The Irish census of population is upon us again, asking us to divulge information about home ownership, room numbers, employment, transport to work, age, birth place, gender, children, and so on. But what are census statistics about? According to the French theorist Michel Foucault, the collection and analysis of statistics, also known as ‘science of…
Blog and website by Ronit Lentin, a political sociologist, writer and an antiracist activist.
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