Since coming to power, former US President Donald Trump has attracted and maintained a remarkable following among the Chinese diaspora in and outside the United
Tag: The Far Right (en)
African evangelicals align themselves with the American right and there are many parallels between American and African evangelicals that may explain why the latter support
When Meir Kahane, an extremist rabbi who advocated for Jewish supremacy through the use of violence, ran in Israel’s 1988 elections, the state’s Central Elections
What the Halle Shooting Tells Us About the European Far Right Today, by Ben Gidley – 24 October 2019
We recorded the sixth episode of the Talking Europe vlog series in October 2019. A week before, during Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, a gunman, heavily armed
A look at recent attempts by religious fundamentalist reactionaries and conspiracy theorists to build coalitions with “gender critical” feminists. From Libcom Over the last few
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
From Jadaliyya Over the last few decades a new term has emerged in France to indicate a form of dangerous leftist politics: (roughly–and awkwardly–translated as
This long post started as an investigation about the Left and Syria which I started after I read the Sol Process blog’s publication of three
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.