If you are in Leeds, this is in a couple of weeks:

I failed to share this earlier. It was a deep honour to be asked by Rumana Hashem & @paulvdudman.bsky.social to contribute to this. I dedicated my piece to my grandparents, my teachers Michael Keith & Vic Seidler and to the memory of Phil Cohen. PDF: www.livingrefugeearchive.org/wp-content/u...

Enregistrez vous pour suivre ces webinaires formidables organisés par LEFT RENEWAL – Alex Guschanski, Ben Gidley, Charlotte Rubin, Daniel Mang, Lumi C, Mahir Geçikligün, Natalie Högström. L'archive des enregistrements est également très précieux.

Good post by @rachelshabi.bsky.social on antisemitism and “Semites”. (Quoting @jamesrenton.bsky.social, so extra points from me.) Tl;dr: if you’re using 19th century Orientalist language to talk about Jews and Muslims you probably haven’t thought enough about the issue to be worth listening to.

Our very own BIAJS Director @bengidley.bsky.social is giving the Selig Brodetsky Memorial Lecture at @lahri.bsky.social Centre for Jewish Studies on 24th March 5.30pm on 'Is antisemitism rising in the UK?' Sign up forms.office.com/pages/respon... @bisa-bkk.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social

This is a personally heartbreaking story, and also a symbol of a wider pattern of capitalist core states using a growing range of carrots and sticks to enrol poorer states as offshore prison camps and dumping grounds for migrants.

UK Home Office now only accepting 4.5% of Ukrainian asylum seekers because it’s a “safe country”. Families sent to cities being bombed, told to use noise cancelling headphones to block out the horror. news.sky.com/story/ukrain...

In the first in a new “Glossary” series on our blog, Jelena Lalatović explains “Liminality” liminalwater.uni-graz.at/en/blog/blog...

The #LiminalWater blog has launched with @bengidley.bsky.social’s introductory post on the project, looking for resources for hope in a time of multiple crises. liminalwater.uni-graz.at/de/blog/blog... @fwf-at.bsky.social @jennywustenberg.bsky.social @samsamev.bsky.social @bbkhistorical.bsky.social

This day looks absolutely amazing for anyone who’s interested in documentary film, working class history, Hungarian emigration, the anti-Stalinist left or the Jewish East End. Starring Alan Dein, Sukhdev Sandhu and Rachel Lichtenstein among others:

Later this month in Leeds, @rachelshabi.bsky.social discussing decoloniality and Jewish identity

Exposing Foreign Involvement in Sudan’s Evolving War, by Husam Mahjoub – 15 February 2026 leftrenewal.org/articles-en/...

Haoues Seniguer sur la violence au nom du judaïsme et de l’islam au prisme du 7 octobre et de ses conséquences. vimeo.com/1164956197

Really good article on the diversity of historic Zionism, the gap between it and contemporary Zionism, and how US Jewish public opinion has shifted on this question as a result. [The dynamic is similar in the UK, but hasn’t moved so fast.]

The next @ihr.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar is on 3rd March - @conniethomas.bsky.social will be presenting 'Public activism and the 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts' - of (huge) interest to those interested in migration, citizenship & US history. Sign up here: tinyurl.com/3s6yym7t

This is very sad news. Chip was a major influence on my political development as well as an anti-fascist icon.

I reviewed "Far-Right France: Le Pen, Bardella and the Future of Europe" by Victor Mallet for @litreview.bsky.social. (February issue) Article in free access below. 👇 literaryreview.co.uk/normal-circu...

At #LeftRenewal, we continue to update our dossier on the Iranian uprising and its repression, with voices from trade unions and activists from the region and its diaspora. Recent content from @sia-shahabi.bsky.social @sepehrhaghighi.bsky.social @radiozamaneh.bsky.social @chowmak.bsky.social + more.

I've tried to translate some of what I was feeling and thinking about the recent events in Minneapolis into something a bit more analytical. bylinetimes.com/2026/01/29/w...

Check out our new website! (Here’s the page for my project: liminalwater.uni-graz.at/en/projects/... )

The 1st of my 3-part series on digital politics is out in the Guardian. Read, comment, tell me I'm wrong, attack me. As I argue: 'The real battleground is over emotion and attention, which is what determines whether information – good or bad – finds an audience. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Quite an honour to be one of the keynotes at Greenwich University’s #HolocaustMemorialDay event last night, in very grand surroundings. I spoke about how we can learn from antisemitism’s history to resist it, & how intergenerational learning & multidirectional solidarity can create safer communities

In April, all three of us will be coming together for a Left Renewal webinar to discuss our critical perspectives further. Many thanks to @danielmang.bsky.social and @bengidley.bsky.social for the invitation, more details coming soon and in the meantime, this blog is worth following: leftrenewal.org

New article by my lovely colleague Arndt Emmerich on the Jewish Sopranos* of Frankfurt. (*Sopranos as in Tony Soprano, not as in opera) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

If you’re in #Southampton, this #HMD2026 event tomorrow, focusing on the Roma and Sinti genocide (sometimes called the Porrajmos, “devouring”), looks excellent:

On how Ernst Fraenkel’s 1930s theory of the Nazi Dual State illuminates the Trump regime’s campaign of violence in Minnesota Via @theunpopulist.net open.substack.com/pub/theunpop...

Brilliant new article by Yasmeen Narayan on the endless reimaginings of the human that flowed from the translation houses of Islamic Iraq to the Ṣufi practices of medieval Timbuktu to turn provision grounds of the plantation Caribbean www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Important piece from Melanie Goldberg, who was fired from the UK Holocaust Memorial Day Trust for her involvement with the Israeli Palestinian-Jewish organization Standing Together, which has called Israel's actions in Gaza a genocide. www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026...

Interview by Aamna Mohdin of my @bisa-bkk.bsky.social colleague @dmf101.bsky.social in which he crisply articulates why we need a reset in our antisemitism debate www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j... @runnymedetrust.bsky.social @shabna.bsky.social

#HolocaustMemorialDay webinar from @ucu.org.uk The genocide of Europe's Roma, with Eve Rosenhaft, University of Liverpool Tuesday 27 January 2026, 13:00-14:00 www.ucu.org.uk/hmd

Two fantastic events coming up from Jargon: Holocaust Memorial Day with the great @ankahajkova.bsky.social, author of People Without History Are Dust, at the brilliant @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social, and legend David Rosenberg doing a From Yiddish to Bangla Street Life walk www.jargon.org.uk/events

Very sad to hear of the passing of, after a long fight with cancer, of my colleague Matthias Koenig. Matthias was the embodiment of the scholarly vocation, a gentle, self-effacing, diligent, rigorous man. I’m told he was signing off doctoral paperwork even as he went into palliative care.

No longer paywalled, and worth reading in full:

Beautiful piece by @bryan-cheyette.bsky.social: The Palestinian Ghetto — on reading Elias Khoury in a time of war refugeehistory.org/blog/2026/1/...

A weekend read from our own Jelena Lalatovic: On reading eco-critique as a Marxist open.substack.com/pub/philolog...

Content via @naghmehs.bsky.social @friedaafary.bsky.social @rezahakbari.bsky.social @amwajmedia.bsky.social @crimethinc.com @workersliberty.bsky.social #IranUprising #LeftRenewal

This is now heavily updated with texts in English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Croatian and Ukrainian, including a number of pieces by South American leftists and anarchists. On Monday, we will publish something similar around the uprising in Iran.

Next Social Scientists against the Hostile Environment webinar, 2 Feb: On flags and resurgent nationalism, brilliant line up: Michael Billig, Sivamohan Valluvan, Kojo Kyerewaa. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/flags-and-...

Cites @nafeez.bsky.social @mkaradjis.bsky.social @robtoes.bsky.social @beppo22.bsky.social @stefwolff.bsky.social @aplutsoc.bsky.social

In a bout of insomnia the night before last I wrote something about Trump’s regime capture in Caracas leftrenewal.org/articles-en/... #LeftRenewal

On Eastern Europe and what the global left can’t see: a #LeftRenewal webinar with historian @ankahajkova.bsky.social Really interesting, touching on anti-Eastern European racism, decoloniality re the post-Stalinist world, & gender politics within Holocaust studies. leftrenewal.org/videos-en/ha...

On the #LeftRenewal blog we’ve just posted a multilingual dossier of texts on Trump’s Venezuelan takeover. We’ll keep adding over the coming days leftrenewal.org/us-venezuela...

I have 496 tabs open on Safari on my phone so maybe I’ll take inspiration from this and see if I can tick some off…

So today I’ve been added to a Bluesky moderation list called “Hitlets” for the crime of saying that not all anti-Zionism is antisemitism…

David Miller says Jews have been conducting a “centuries-long programme of entryism and subversion.” But this is just anti-Zionism right?

What a year, ey? It will get worse. We will get by, bit by bit, only by being decent, kind, and brave. And by showing solidarity, always.

Renouveler la gauche à l’ère de l’attente, par moi et @danielmang.bsky.social – 1er octobre 2025 Relecture et révision : Yves Bonnardel leftrenewal.org/fr/lraw-fr/

Betwixtmas cross-cultural kitchen morning today, investigating the things hidden at the backs of the cupboards. First, some maghrebi chocolate flan I bought in Marseille because I loved the packaging. I’ll report back later to tell you if it set or not…

My grandfather, Myron, graduation from James Madison High, Brooklyn (also Alma mater of RBG and Bernie Sanders), 1930. His stated aspiration was to go to Cornell. He didn’t make it to university and became a factory machinist.

I also rather liked this long and thorough take on what it means to be on the Left after the Russian full scale invasion of Ukraine and October 7 leftrenewal.org/lraw-en/