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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…
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Race and the lessons of 1916
At the end of Easter 2016 week I feel somewhat 1916-ed out. I spent the week watching Insurrection, the wonderful day by day series about the 1916 Rising produced and directed by my late husband Louis for RTE in 1966 and which was re-broadcast for the first time only this year, fifty years after it…
Blog and website by Ronit Lentin, a political sociologist, writer and an antiracist activist.
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