Dave Rich
@daverich1.bsky.social
I write about antisemitism. Latest book: Everyday Hate: How Antisemitism Is Built Into Our World & How You Can Change It. X/Twitter at @daverich1, but maybe not for much longer. Substack at 'Everyday Hate'.
Next week's antisemitism conference in Israel has caused divisions in the global struggle against anti-Jewish hate just when we need unity the most. I've written about what it means. everydayhate.substack.com/p/the-antise...
The antisemitism conference
Next week the Israeli government will host an International Conference on Combating Antisemitism in Jerusalem, with speakers and delegates from across the world gathering “to raise awareness about the...
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Good old @theguardian.com, urging Jews to celebrate Purim by reflecting on "the evil that Jews commit" and "the danger we pose" to non-Jews... "With the blood of their foes barely dry, the Jews feast and make merry." Happy Purim! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
As Jews celebrate Purim, let us end the slaughter in Gaza committed in our name | Peter Beinart
Our refusal to reckon with the dark side of Purim reflects a refusal to reckon with the dark side of ourselves
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All that talk of decolonisation, freedom fighters, liberation & resistance, and it ends with Jewish children paraded in coffins as grotesque propaganda props by Hamas. It feels like the right day to remember how some people welcomed October 7 at the time everydayhate.substack.com/p/now-we-see...
Now we see you - again
So this is what it has come to: all that talk of decolonisation, of freedom fighters, of liberation and heroic resistance.
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The AI-generated fake video of Jewish celebrities supposedly denouncing Kanye West's antisemitism exposed a troubling reality: we need artificial outrage because genuine outrage is in such short supply. everydayhate.substack.com/p/artificial...
Artificial Outrage
A few days ago my social media feeds were full of an AI-generated video of famous Jewish celebrities giving the finger, sort of, to Kanye West.
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If Palestinians want to leave Gaza and live somewhere else, then if there are other countries willing to offer them residency or citizenship they should be able to go. The moment they are forced against their will to leave en masse, it is ethnic cleansing. I don't see how it can be anything else.
Striking how similar the sentiments - and even exact wording - is on this Hamas banner to the placards and chants on protests in the UK. “Nazi Zionism”, victory to the resistance, etc. Different parts of the same movement.
"Musk the Troll" by Dave Rich. Superb analysis of that Nazi salute and what may or may not lie behind it. #antisemitism
Dave Rich@daverich1.bsky.social · 2y agoIt was a Nazi salute - but does that mean Elon Musk is a Nazi? As ever, it's a bit more complicated than that. everydayhate.substack.com/p/musk-the-t...
It was a Nazi salute - but does that mean Elon Musk is a Nazi? As ever, it's a bit more complicated than that. everydayhate.substack.com/p/musk-the-t...
Musk the Troll
It was a Nazi salute.
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It was a fascist salute. Even if it came from his subconscious, that’s what it was. There shouldn’t be any doubt about that.
With Holocaust Memorial Day approaching I've written about Pankaj Mishra's London Review of Books essay 'The Shoah After Gaza'. It was a deeply disturbing work linking traditional anti-Jewish narratives & contemporary intellectual anti-Zionism: this is my response. isca.indiana.edu/publication-...
Shoah Revisionism After Gaza
Beinner Family Research Papers: Dave Rich.
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Excellent piece from Dave Rich on the implications of changes to Facebook and other Meta entities.
Dave Rich@daverich1.bsky.social · 2y agoChanges announced by Meta this week - ditching fact-checkers & removing automated filters for hate speech - confirm that they never really believed in the need to remove hate content, and now, in a Muskovite online world, they don't have to pretend. everydayhate.substack.com/p/meta-opens...
Brilliant.
Dave Rich@daverich1.bsky.social · 2y agoChanges announced by Meta this week - ditching fact-checkers & removing automated filters for hate speech - confirm that they never really believed in the need to remove hate content, and now, in a Muskovite online world, they don't have to pretend. everydayhate.substack.com/p/meta-opens...
Changes announced by Meta this week - ditching fact-checkers & removing automated filters for hate speech - confirm that they never really believed in the need to remove hate content, and now, in a Muskovite online world, they don't have to pretend. everydayhate.substack.com/p/meta-opens...
Meta opens the floodgates
Back in the days when people were still working out whether social media companies could be forced to take responsibility for hosting antisemitic and other hateful content, a Facebook page called ‘Jew...
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Update to this post: The Met Police have now imposed legal restrictions on PSC's demonstration to force them to change their plans. news.met.police.uk/news/met-use...
Met uses powers to prevent protest gathering close to London synagogue
We have reached the view that a protest forming up so close to a synagogue on a Saturday – the Jewish holy day – when congregants will be attending Shabbat...
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Dave Rich@daverich1.bsky.social · 2y agoPolice have asked the Palestine Solidarity Campaign to move their next march so it doesn't clash with Shabbat morning services at a nearby synagogue. PSC have refused. The row gets to the heart of what the marches are for & their impact on community tensions everydayhate.substack.com/p/move-the-m...
Police have asked the Palestine Solidarity Campaign to move their next march so it doesn't clash with Shabbat morning services at a nearby synagogue. PSC have refused. The row gets to the heart of what the marches are for & their impact on community tensions everydayhate.substack.com/p/move-the-m...
Move the march
The news this week that the Metropolitan Police are trying to move the next pro-Palestine march away from a central London synagogue made me think of a comment made by US Secretary of State Anthony Bl...
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Very much looking forward to taking part in this jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/events/simon...
Simon Sebag-Montefiore & Dave Rich - Jewish Literary Foundation
In a recent Sky News interview, Simon Sebag Montefiore observed, “In historical terms, what we’re seeing is the end of the taboo on antisemitism,” 80 years after the end of World War Two. Now, the acc...
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Maajid Nawaz has finally completed the circular journey back to his antisemitic conspiracist roots, blaming the grooming gangs on Mossad.
📽 Catch up now on a fascinating talk by @daverich1.bsky.social, Antisemitism and the Holocaust since October 7 He explored how antisemitic tropes and understandings (or misunderstandings) of the Holocaust may condition responses to the conflict in the middle east:
Antisemitism and the Holocaust since October 7th, with Dave Rich
Dr Dave Rich, Director of Policy at the Community Security Trust (CST), explores how antisemitism links to interpretations and understanding of the Holocaust...
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Writing about antisemitism can be a miserable business, so I thought that, in the spirit of the season, I should use my last newsletter of 2024 to suggest five reasons to be optimistic for 2025 everydayhate.substack.com/p/reasons-to...
Reasons to be Cheerful
Writing and talking about antisemitism can be a depressing business.
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Our Chief Executive, @markg-cst.bsky.social and Director of Policy, @daverich1.bsky.social attended Keir Starmer Chanukah reception at 10 Downing Street alongside many others from across the Jewish community. Thank you for your support.
Every single time this argument comes up it is Mizrahi erasure. Worse -- it's not just forgetting Mizrahi and other MENA Jews exist, it's insisting their very identity is a form of theft. They must choose: they can be Jews, or Middle Eastern, but not both.
This week the Irish government asked the ICJ to widen its legal definition of genocide for the case against Israel. Amnesty International have suggested the same. What does this tell us about the campaign to convict Israel of genocide? everydayhate.substack.com/p/shifting-t...
Shifting the goalposts of genocide
This week the Irish government announced they are to join South Africa’s case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), in which Israel stands accused of genocide - the most heinous ...
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Israel destroying Syria's air force, navy, chemical weapons and other strategic military assets, so that jihadists or anyone else can't use them, is the kind of thing that governments across the Middle East and Europe will be secretly cheering while publicly condemning www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Israel seizing on Syria chaos to strike military assets
Israel has attacked Syrian military assets and has troops operating in the Golan buffer zone and slightly beyond.
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📽 Catch up now on a fascinating talk by @daverich1.bsky.social, Antisemitism and the Holocaust since October 7 He explored how antisemitic tropes and understandings (or misunderstandings) of the Holocaust may condition responses to the conflict in the middle east: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnAa...
Antisemitism and the Holocaust since October 7th, with Dave Rich
YouTube video by The Wiener Holocaust Library
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Thinking of David Miller and George Galloway on this difficult day for them and their crank Assadist friends.
The arson at Melbourne's Adass Israel Synagogue ought to shock everyone - except it isn't shocking at all, because this is the state antisemitism has reached now. It's time for everyone to act everydayhate.substack.com/p/arson-in-m...
Arson in Melbourne, fire all around
Tomorrow morning, as on every Shabbat morning, Jews around the world will go to synagogue to pray, chat, eat and feel part of their community - except at Melbourne's Adass Israel Synagogue, which was ...
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Including Jews in ethnicity-based monitoring was one of the recommendations I made in Everyday Hate - we can't tackle antisemitism if we don't measure it properly.
Preet Kaur Gill MP@preetkgillmp.bsky.social · 2y agoDespite being legally recognised as ethnic groups for over 40 years, public bodies don't collect data on Jewish and Sikh people to monitor inequalities and deliver public services. It makes our communities invisible to policymakers. Today I am introducing a Bill to change that.
