Dave Rich
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...
- 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...
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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...
- 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...
- 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.
- You might think it won't happen or that it's better than all the other options (not my view, just to be clear). And it is often forgotten that many states - including in Europe's relatively recent history - were created through ethnic cleansing. But please, let's not pretend this is 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.
- Plus, you can imagine what the leaders of that movement would say if Israel forced the released Palestinian prisoners to pose surrounded by IDF soldiers in front of a banner calling them Nazis and crowing about the war in Gaza etc.
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- 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...
- 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...
- 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-...
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- 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...
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- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Very much looking forward to taking part in this jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/events/simon...
- Maajid Nawaz has finally completed the circular journey back to his antisemitic conspiracist roots, blaming the grooming gangs on Mossad.
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- Time to get rid of that blue tick on my X account.
- 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...
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- 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...
- 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...
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- Thinking of David Miller and George Galloway on this difficult day for them and their crank Assadist friends.
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- 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...
- 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.
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- So much misogyny in one comment. Maybe “middle class women of a certain age” have more agency to complain, especially on Celebrity Masterchef where - unlike regular Masterchef - they are less likely to fear risking their dreams if they speak up, and are more likely to know who to complain to in TV.
- Last week a mosque in Preston came under pressure for hosting a meeting with local Jewish community leaders. It's an example of how extremist groups and narratives are trying to squeeze Jews out of public spaces - and with it damaging social cohesion for all everydayhate.substack.com/p/squeezing-...
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- It's like James II losing the Glorious Revolution because of his debilitating nosebleeds
- An important thread about Musk's political trajectory in relation to UK politics; and also about how UK political culture differs from that of the United States in ways that Musk does not understand.
- I've currently got 17k followers on X and 700 here. But I'll be posting more here than there, for the same reason that I'd rather go for a walk through a nice park than trudge through a filthy swamp. And hopefully those follower numbers will gradually climb.
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- David Miller thinks *Saudi Arabia* is set on erasing Islam from the earth and wants Iran to develop nuclear weapons to stop them.
- I've made a Starter Pack for research & insight into antisemitism, extremism, conspiracy theories and similar unpleasant but important things. I'm sure I've forgotten people & I'll add more as I go along, but as the name suggests - it's a start! go.bsky.app/L3v2Zp9at://did:plc:733rtgkj45mlbej3277e3dnr/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lbolczsbxd25
- In 2015 Portugal offered citizenship to people descended from medieval Jewish communities expelled in the 14th/15th century. To prove Jewish heritage they used traditional Jewish surnames from that period - and Amorim is on the list. That’s enough for Jewish MUFC fans to get even more excited imv
- Happy to say I was already following a lot of these excellent people. I highly recommend you do the same!
- Starter pack of non-massive accounts that you should really be following, because they will teach you things and/or make you laugh go.bsky.app/UStkBW1at://did:plc:4ap35rus77cg3lzju2v43jxn/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lbjr2bz3zj2p
- Reposted by Dave RichSPECIAL REPORT: 5Pillars’ latest discrimination breach shines new light on its alarming content. My latest story for Jewish News: www.jewishnews.co.uk/special-repo...
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- Some more thoughts about the violence in Amsterdam, or rather on the various reactions to it, now that everyone has settled into their chosen narrative about what happened www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- The violence in Amsterdam was not a football riot, or a pogrom, but a warning of the antisemitic potential that still resides in European society: and a sign of who will stand with Europe’s Jews and who would betray us. open.substack.com/pub/everyday...
- False Friends: why yesterday's marches in central London have nothing to offer Jews in the struggle against antisemitism open.substack.com/pub/everyday...
- The Guardian asked me to sum what what the past year has been like for British Jews. This is what I came up with www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- One year on from October 7, and nobody talks about The Occupation any more. Instead, it is all about decolonisation - and with it a hostile rewriting of Jewish history. everydayhate.substack.com/p/one-year-on
- Lee is a good film, or at least it's a film with a very good central performance by Kate Winslet, but it's also the latest Holocaust film to downplay the fact that Jews were the main victims of Nazi genocide. Barely a mention, in fact. everydayhate.substack.com/p/lee-anothe...
- Israel's always-critics have been out in force this week, and this time it isn't to support suffering Gazans, but to take the side of Hizbollah, an antisemitic terror group. everydayhate.substack.com/p/israels-al...
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- Zionism, anti-Zionism, and the morality of victimhood everydayhate.substack.com/p/who-wants-...
