What's On

In this talk, Omer Bartov will explore the transformation of Zionism from a movement of Jewish emancipation and liberation into a state ideology of ethno-nationalism, exclusion and violent domination of Palestinians.

The publication of a new report, commissioned by the Runnymede Trust and written by David Feldman, Ben Gidley and Brendan McGeever, forms the basis of this panel discussion.
The report argues that we urgently need a new approach to both thinking about and combating antisemitism. Click the link for full details and to access the report.

Rebecca Clifford explores the individual and collective journeys of the youngest survivors of the Holocaust: from ‘lucky’ children who managed to live through genocide, to ‘child Holocaust survivors’ with a profound new understanding of their own pasts.

Renowned Memory Studies scholar explores what it means to live with histories of colonial and Nazi violence, and questions of remembrance and responsibility.

Matthew Bolton explores how UK anti-discrimination law has constructed Jewish identity as a mode of ‘ethnicity’ and encouraged the essentialisation or dehistoricisation of Jewish identity.