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		<title>From Imran Ahmed to Heidi Bachram, those opposing hate speech are being targeted</title>
		<link>https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/in-both-the-uk-and-the-us-opposition-to-hate-speech-is-being-targeted/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2025 13:17:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Reginald D Hunter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Antisemitism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Livingstone Formulation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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]]></description>
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		<title>OPINION: The false claim that Israel is committing genocide is a modern blood libel</title>
		<link>https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-the-false-claim-that-israel-is-committing-genocide-is-a-modern-blood-libel/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2025 15:11:30 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Antisemitism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blood libel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hamas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gaza]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[palestinians]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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]]></description>
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		<title>OPINION: Antisemitism on campus &#8211; universities may not learn, we must</title>
		<link>https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-antisemitism-on-campus-universities-may-not-learn-we-must/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Mar 2023 16:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leeds University]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anti-Zionist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exam Board]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK Lawyers For Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Soas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IHRA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Professor David Miller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The London Centre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Danielle Greyman]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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]]></description>
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		<title>OPINION: How you can help oppose antisemitism in academia</title>
		<link>https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-how-you-can-help-oppose-antisemitism-in-academia/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2022 19:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Hirsh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Antisemitism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lecturer David Hirsh on why he's launching the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism to lead academic research into contemporary antisemitism.
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		<title>OPINION: Competing fears at the ballot box</title>
		<link>https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/competing-fears-at-ballot-box-next-week/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Dec 2019 14:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Hirsh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Election 2019]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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
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		<title>OPINION: Why antisemitism and populism go hand-in-hand</title>
		<link>https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/why-antisemitism-and-populism-go-hand-in-hand/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2019 11:38:29 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Hirsh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Antisemitism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labour Antisemitism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[populism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Hirsh says we cannot understand contemporary populism without understanding its relationship to Jew-hatred  ]]></description>
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		<title>OPINION: Labour&#8217;s intersection of antisemitism and misogyny</title>
		<link>https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/labours-intersection-of-antisemitism-and-misogyny/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2019 17:12:17 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Hirsh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ruth smeeth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dame Margaret Hodge]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. 
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		<title>OPINION: Corbyn to Zionists: Even if you’ve always lived here, you don’t get us</title>
		<link>https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/corbyn-to-zionists-even-if-you-lived-here-all-your-life-you-dont-get-the-english/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2018 20:24:11 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Hirsh]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Hirsh reflects on the Labour leader's latest controversial remark at the 2013 event on the British legacy in Palestine]]></description>
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		<title>OPINION &#8211; David Hirsh: Understanding Labour’s disavowal of the IHRA definition</title>
		<link>https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/understanding-labours-disavowal-of-the-ihra-definition/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2018 09:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Hirsh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labour Antisemitism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Labour Party]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following Labour NEC's decision to go against the community's wishes over the IHRA definition, David Hirsh explains why its decision was wrong ]]></description>
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		<title>OPINION: The speech Jeremy Corbyn must make, but never will</title>
		<link>http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/hirsh-corbyn-antisemitism-op-ed/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2018 09:41:30 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Hirsh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeremy Corbyn]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion: Corbyn’s office ‘glad’ that Machover’s expulsion has been rescinded</title>
		<link>http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/corbyns-office-glad-that-machovers-expulsion-has-been-rescinded/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2017 09:03:32 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moshé Machover]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labour Antisemitism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Labour Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sociology lecturer David Hirsh reflects on the reinstating of a controversial anti-Israel Labour member ]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion: Freer or Newmark? It’s an emancipating choice</title>
		<link>http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/freer-or-newmark-its-an-emancipating-choice/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 May 2017 13:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Election]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professor David Hirsh reflects on the choice facing voters in Finchley and Golders Green at the forthcoming General Election]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion: Livingstone still refuses to believe anti-Semitism is possible on left</title>
		<link>http://toi.sr/2ozeEz3</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Mar 2017 09:36:08 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ken Livingstone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ken Livingstone decision]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Hirsh says, for Ken Livingstone, nothing is considered anti-Semitic, everything is considered legitimate criticism]]></description>
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