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David Hirsh

David Hirsh

David teaches sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. He's also the Editor of http://EngageOnline.org.uk .
Westminster Magistrates Court (Credit: Wikimedia Commons/GrimsbyT)
December 29, 2025, 1:17 pm
From Imran Ahmed to Heidi Bachram, those opposing hate speech are being targeted
Too many appear willing to ignore the simple fact that antisemitism is a weapon forged to be used against Jews; it is not a weapon used by Jews against antisemites
By David Hirsh
Pic: Twitter/X
October 7, 2025, 4:11 pm
OPINION: The false claim that Israel is committing genocide is a modern blood libel
The driving aim of the grotesque 'genocide' libel is to attempt to portray Israel - and by extension, Jews - as modern-day Nazis, and to treat them accordingly
By David Hirsh
Danielle Greyman and University of Leeds. Pic: Yorkshire Evening Post
March 16, 2023, 4:48 pm
OPINION: Antisemitism on campus – universities may not learn, we must
The case of student Danielle Greyman demonstrates not only that antisemitism remains entrenched in our university system but that organising ourselves is the first step in fighting back
By David Hirsh
A CAA rally against antisemitism in 2020
August 31, 2022, 8:10 pm
OPINION: How you can help oppose antisemitism in academia
Lecturer David Hirsh on why he's launching the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism to lead academic research into contemporary antisemitism.
By David Hirsh
Former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn last year (Photo credit: Joe Giddens/PA Wire)
December 8, 2019, 2:20 pm
OPINION: Competing fears at the ballot box
With election day looming, David Hirsh says the country does not have a crisis of the right or the left, but of our democratic community as a whole
By David Hirsh
Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn Photo credit: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire
May 14, 2019, 12:38 pm
OPINION: Why antisemitism and populism go hand-in-hand
David Hirsh says we cannot understand contemporary populism without understanding its relationship to Jew-hatred
By David Hirsh
Ruth Smeeth (left) and Dame Margaret Hodge (right) have been at the forefront of the community's fight against antisemitism in Labour, and have suffered abuse, including death threats.
April 21, 2019, 6:12 pm
OPINION: Labour’s intersection of antisemitism and misogyny
David Hirsh says two vilenesses find each other and come together to form hateful unions which are worse than the sum of their already frightening parts. 
By David Hirsh
Jeremy Corbyn speaking at the 2013 meeting, where he made the English irony remarks. Picture courtesy of the Daily Mail.
August 23, 2018, 9:24 pm
OPINION: Corbyn to Zionists: Even if you’ve always lived here, you don’t get us
David Hirsh reflects on the Labour leader's latest controversial remark at the 2013 event on the British legacy in Palestine
By David Hirsh
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn Photo credit should read: Ben Birchall/PA Wire
July 18, 2018, 10:02 am
OPINION – David Hirsh: Understanding Labour’s disavowal of the IHRA definition
Following Labour NEC's decision to go against the community's wishes over the IHRA definition, David Hirsh explains why its decision was wrong
By David Hirsh
Jeremy Corbyn speaking at at rally (Photo credit: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire
April 23, 2018, 10:41 am
OPINION: The speech Jeremy Corbyn must make, but never will
Honesty from the Labour leader is the only way to end the anti-Semitism scandal that's consumed his party. But, writes David Hirsh, he's incapable of self-criticism.
By David Hirsh
Moshe Machover Source: jewishsocialist.org.uk
November 1, 2017, 9:03 am
Opinion: Corbyn’s office ‘glad’ that Machover’s expulsion has been rescinded
Sociology lecturer David Hirsh reflects on the reinstating of a controversial anti-Israel Labour member
By David Hirsh
Tory Mike Freer and Labour's Jeremy Newmark
May 3, 2017, 2:38 pm
Opinion: Freer or Newmark? It’s an emancipating choice
Professor David Hirsh reflects on the choice facing voters in Finchley and Golders Green at the forthcoming General Election
By David Hirsh
Ken Livingstone confronted by Labour MP John Mann after making his controversial remarks about Hitler
From the WebMarch 30, 2017, 10:36 am
Opinion: Livingstone still refuses to believe anti-Semitism is possible on left
David Hirsh says, for Ken Livingstone, nothing is considered anti-Semitic, everything is considered legitimate criticism
By David Hirsh
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