According to Google Trends, the term ‘decolonial’ peaked in popularity in France around the summer of 2016 due to initiatives, questionable to say the least,
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What does Musk, father of 14, expect from his “legion” of children? We unravel his quest for genetic optimization, including alleged embryo screening, and his
Could Musk’s authoritarian streak trace back to his Canadian grandfather? Before Joshua Haldeman brought his family to South Africa, he made waves as part of
The attack and murder at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in Manchester on Thursday 2 October (Yom Kippur) have brought antisemitism back to the
Where did Elon Musk’s epic ambitions begin? In search of clues we return to his sheltered youth in apartheid South Africa, a world engineered for
Given the seemingly endless string of AfD successes across Germany – particularly in the East – there is a very real possibility of the neo-fascist
Ecuador is caught between an onslaught of austerity policies and armed violence that increasingly impedes collective action. We are experiencing multiple wars that appear isolated,
On 15 August 2025, the Taliban marked four years since retaking control of Afghanistan – a period defined by deepening authoritarianism, economic collapse, and international
From Political Quarterly Blog […] On a deeper conceptual level, the complex history of “race” and racialisation shows that apparent skin colour is just one
From Himal Southasian Nearly a million Afghan refugees have been deported from Iran in 2025 – many after brutal detention and abuse – to face
The following is a reply to Vashti editor Eli Machover’s ‘The choice is one between anti-racism and Zionism as such’. You can read Professor David
Shahrukh Alam, a lawyer practicing in India’s Supreme Court, dissects how the country’s law and order machinery has been turned against its Muslim citizens in
Development economist Amirullah Khan explains the social indicators that show the stark deprivation of the majority of India’s Muslims, especially in education and employment. He talks
On 21 May, the publication of the report ‘The Muslim Brotherhood and Political Islamism in France’ highlighted the existence of Islamophobia in political life. On
From Himal Southasian The Hindu Right has dispossessed India’s Muslims of meaningful political participation and fair representation while altering electoral politics to cast Muslims as
In Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism: South Africa in the Chinese Century (Duke University Press, 2024), Mingwei Huang traces the transformation of global capitalism and its racial
The political shift to the right—towards authoritarianism, nationalism, misogyny, and hatred of queer people—is global and dates back to the 2008 crisis. Its main political
A recent violent and destructive march calling for the expulsion of Haitians in Punta Cana demonstrates the vehement anti-Haitianism and rising fascism prevalent in the
From Himal Southasian How one Dalit woman’s courage in 1841 challenged a centuries-old system of caste-based slavery and hastened the promise of freedom for millions
Last November, Kamel Daoud, an Algerian-French author and conservative columnist, received the esteemed Goncourt Prize in Paris for his novel “Houris.” This work, published by
The manosphere’s antisemitic turn A few years ago I attended a manosphere conference in Orlando, Florida. One of the masculinity gurus was up on stage
From Boston Review How neoliberals fell in love with “human nature”—the glue that still unites the divergent factions of the new right. In 2013 Charles
The double bind of left antisemitism At the end of Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill: Volume 2, the titular Bill delivers an extended monologue to his
From Vox. The MAGA movement loves Israel — but is increasingly hostile to Jews. Over and over again, the Trump administration has claimed to be
In this period of escalating outrage, and proving right the old adage ‘birds of a feather flock together’, we have learned that Amichai Shikli, Israeli
Daniel Randall reviews the Runnymede Trust’s report “Facing antisemitism: the struggle for safety and solidarity”. The Runnymede Trust, an anti-racist and civil rights think tank,
From New Humanist Opposing ideas about antisemitism threaten to split the anti-racist movement. A new book seeks to bridge the divides Many of us are
From Al-Jazeera Trump’s return to power exposed an underbelly of anti-Indian racism in the MAGA-verse. Hindi nationalists who support him are working hard to conceal
By “Atlantic bias” I mean a set of assumptions about “race”, racism, colonialism and imperialism prevalent on the left globally but rooted in the history
00:00:00 Background information00:03:37 Start of Ben’s talk, introduction00:04:20 Theoretical background00:06:14 Thematic overview00:07:00 Real and imagined Jews in the history of European colonialism00:12:45 Activist settler colonialism
00:02:00 How did you get interested in the subject of “settler colonialism”? 00:05:50 Do you have an “Australian perspective”? 00:08:40 How would you summarise the
From Hope not Hate A Hope not Hate investigator goes undercover inside the race science movement and finds that the notorious Pioneer Fund has relaunched
When a site in Finchley, north London, appeared on a list of targets circulating in far-right chat groups calling for actions on 7 August, several
From K. The Magazine “What did y’all think decolonization meant?,” reads the hyper-viral tweet that circulated after October 7. As antisemitic violence erupted in Canada,
Sidney Lu’s The Making of Japanese Settler Colonialism: Malthusianism and Trans-Pacific Migration, 1868-1961 (Cambridge 2019) places the concept of “Malthusian expansionism” at the center of Japanese settler
Ideas of a specific form of ‘Muslim antisemitism’ carry the risk of unjustified blanket suspicion. Both antisemitism and anti-Muslim racism must be taken seriously, regardless
Asaf Elia-Shalev’s book Israel’s Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation’s Founding Myth (University of California Press, 2024) tells the story of the young and impoverished
Support for the Palestinian People Must Not Tolerate Antisemitism or Reactionary Ideas – 2 June 2024
English translation coming soon!
A statement we co-authored, published in December 2023, “For a consistently democratic and internationalist left“, highlighted the serious problem the global left has with antisemitism.
The seduction of speaking as a Jew – and why I will not do it Of the many indignities Jews have been forced to endure
The chorus of authoritarian propaganda against democratic protests should concern us all. When Greta Thunberg, a student activist against climate change, tweeted a “toolkit” comprising
This article seeks to deepen understanding of the global politics of reactionary discursive formations, which at the current conjuncture increasingly coalesce around self-victimising articulations of
I recently found a photograph of me as a baby, and on the back, scribbled in my father’s handwriting, the words: “Our daughter is blue.”
After over a hundred days of bombing in Gaza, tens of thousands of civilians killed and millions fleeing for their lives, residential buildings and mosques
Having worked for years on the fronts of feminism, anti-racism and the fight against discrimination based on colour, colonisation, gender identity or sexual orientation, we
There’s a new essay being passed around by Megan Wachspress on “The ‘New Antisemitism and the Logic of Whiteness.” As one might imagine,* I have thoughts.
Anti-blackness has until recently been a taboo topic within Arab society. This began to change when Nader Kadhem, a prominent Arab and Muslim thinker from
Marcel Stoetzler is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Bangor University, UK, and currently Horkheimer Fellow at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt/M., Germany.
How has the political meaning of resistance come to be devalued? What are the affinities between the artistic critique of capitalism and a fascination with
From Aeon, by Lachlan McNamee In 1931, Japan invaded northeast China and established a client state called Manchukuo (Manchuria). To secure control over Manchuria, over
In May 2023, when Mauricio Garcia killed eight people in an outlet mall in Allen, Texas, it seemed like just another senseless mass murder similar
In the immediate post-war era the struggle against antisemitism was central to anti-racist politics. Leading scholars writing at the time, among them W.E.B. Du Bois
The 48th issue of The Funambulist is entitled “Fifty Shades of White(ness).” Beyond its tongue-in-cheek title, the general editorial argument is that if we are
Racial capitalism requires that the subaltern periphery, providing cheap labour and new markets, be placed behind an imagined racial barrier, so that the full protection
From +972 Magazine The Israeli right’s embrace of Viktor Orbán typifies its convergence with a global far right espousing what scholar Jelena Subotić calls ‘pro-Israel
Germany has a long history of colonialism and racism in Eastern Europe. To this day, people who are perceived as “Eastern” face discrimination and exclusion.
From The London Review of Books The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics, by Mae Ngai. Norton, 440 pp., £21.99, September 2021, 978 0 393 63416 7 In 1852,
Andrew Liu talks to Thomas Jones about the Chinese workers who followed the gold rush to California, Australia and South Africa, the racial stereotypes about
For decades, historians have debated the question of whether concepts equivalent to race and racism existed in premodern Chinese ethnic discourse. Unfortunately, this discussion has
We are a group of leftist educators, scholars, and activists who support the Kurdish-led liberation struggle in Rojava and beyond. We write in a spirit
Five hours before the opening of the West Papuan waria beauty pageant, the salon of the Sorong community elders was busy with preparations. Among 10
Indonesians’ present-day notions of beauty are embedded in a long and complex relationship between skin colour and race Go to any mall in Indonesia and
The publication of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) report, as well as the ongoing fallout from the Panorama documentary and subsequent legal wranglings,
“Race and Racism in Africa and the Middle East” was part of the nationwide #ScholarStrike to halt academic business as usual and to instead host
Bruce S. Hall is an associate professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. This article first appeared in Antropologia Vol. 7 No.
Laura Menin is an Italian anthropologist based at the University of Sussex, UK, whose research explores love, intimacy, political violence, racialisation, and the legacies of
From AJS Review Abstract “Intersectionality,” a concept coined and developed by legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw, examines how our various identities change in meaning and valence
Soon after I arrived in Ürümchi in 2014 I met a young Uyghur man named Alim. He grew up in a small town near the
Decades after the first Ethiopian immigrants arrived in Israel, the community still suffers from high poverty, discrimination, and recent police shootings have brought on mass
A conversation between Michael Dawson (The University of Chicago) and Nancy Fraser (The New School), in which they discuss race and capitalism. They debate Dawson’s
2018 has seen a vast rise in anti-Semitic violence globally, culminating in the massacre of 11 Jews in a Pittsburgh Synagogue in November. Similarly, violence
Documentary films addressing the topic of slavery and the slave trade in Africa are rare. As a specialist in slavery and race studies focusing on
A central insistence of antiracist thought over the past several decades is that, as with any social category produced by regimes of power, you don’t choose race, power chooses it for you; it names you. This is why all the well-meaning identification in the world does not make a White person Black. Likewise, as much as I draw inspiration from the Jewish community, and as much as I adore my Jewish partner and friends, it was my organizing against antisemitism as a Black antiracist that first pulled me to the Jewish community, not the other way around. I developed an analysis of antisemitism because I wanted to smash White supremacy; because I wanted to be free. If we acknowledge that White nationalism clearly and forcefully names Jews as non-white, and did so in the very fiber of its emergence as a post-civil rights right-wing revolutionary movement, then we are forced to recognize our own ignorance about the country we thought we lived in. It is time to have that conversation.
From Jadaliyya. Brahim El Guabli (BEG): Why Black Morocco: A History of Slavery, Race, and Islam? Chouki El Hamel (CEH): Written history about Morocco is
Eve Troutt Powell is a professor of History and Middle East and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also a MacArthur Fellow