Category: Racism

Following in Grandpa Phil’s footsteps

It's long been a cliché that Prince William represents a "new generation" of British royalty who are unencumbered by the prejudices and stifling customs of their grandparents in particular — the ones who got...

On British Muslims and US racial politics

Recently I've noticed a trend among Muslims in the online community of associating Muslims and Islam with 'brown-ness' and in opposition to 'whiteness' as well as the uncritical parroting of dogmas which are in...

UKIP, the ‘burqa’ and FGM

Over the weekend the so-called UK Independence Party published as part of its 2017 election manifesto an "integration agenda" which includes a ban on face coverings, which it describes as a "deliberate barrier to...

Labour an “Apartheid party”? Really?

There's an article in today's Mail on Sunday by Dan Hodges, a Blairite columnist and former GMB union and Labour party staffer (and son of Glenda Jackson), proclaiming that anyone who remains a member...

Who are ‘Liberty GB’ anyway?

Yesterday Channel 4 News broadcast a conversation involving Jack Buckby, the "outreach officer" and former parliamentary candidate for 'Liberty GB', and Barbara Ntumy, deputy president of the London Metropolitan University students' union and a...

On Black Lives Matter and Muslim participation

On Friday evening a well-known western Muslim scholar, in an interview with the British journalist Mehdi Hasan at the Reviving the Islamic Spirit (RIS) 2016 conference in Toronto, made some offensive and inaccurate remarks...

Is anti-Semitism really “a hate apart”?

Let’s be clear – antismetism is a hate apart | Howard Jacobson | Opinion | The Guardian The above is in last Sunday's Observer, and is part of a genre of articles in which...