Political Leadership in The Age of Scoundrels – Reflections in advance of the UK’s December Election
https://isgap.org/flashpoint/political-leadership-in-the-age-of-scoundrels-reflections-in-advance-of-the-uks-december-election/
If the second quarter of the twentieth century was “The age of the dictators” then the current period is bidding to be “The age of the scoundrels”. Certainly, few would claim that many of today’s national leaders display high levels of personal integrity. Perhaps it was ‘ever so’ but surely, not, in democracies, displayed in […]
The Small Matter of Malice: Meditations on “the Pattern” of Antisemitism
https://isgap.org/flashpoint/the-small-matter-of-malice-the-pattern-of-antisemitism-now-and-then-meditations-on-the-pattern-of-antisemitism/
I have just spent the week at Oxford (St. John’s College) at the annual ISGAP conference on antisemitism, which brings together a wide range of people, from scholars to graduate students, to learn about antisemitism and build curricula for teaching it. We were 86 scholars-in-residence: a really impressive group of people at all levels, the scholars, […]
A Straightforward and Practical Resource for Understanding Labour’s Antisemitism Problem
https://isgap.org/flashpoint/a-straightforward-and-practical-resource-for-understanding-labours-antisemitism-problem/
This web page, and the many links contained within it, is a resource for political people who will increasingly find that they need to understand contemporary antisemitism. Please bookmark it and come back to it when you need it. And I’m sorry to tell you that you will need it. Antisemitism always positions its own […]