Category Archives: Jewish Writing on Anti-Semitism

The big chill on free speech hits Britain

Written by Francis Carr Begbie on December 14, 2016 — 100 Comments

It is a fair bet that any ‘media reform’ welcomed by Dr Moshe Kantor, President of the European Jewish Congress, will be bad news for the defenders of free speech. So it is with his reaction to the British government’s groundbreaking new definition of anti-Semitism. Kantor said: We welcome the UK’s landmark decision to define […]

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T.S. Eliot and the Culture of Critique, Part Two

Written by Andrew Joyce, Ph.D. on December 6, 2016 — 12 Comments

‘We must discover what conditions, within our power to bring about, would foster the society that we desire. … Reasons of race and religion combine to make any large number of free-thinking Jews undesirable.’  T.S. Eliot, After Strange Gods, 1934. One of the most striking features of Julius’s T.S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism, and Literary Form is […]

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T.S. Eliot and the Culture of Critique, Part One of Two

Written by Andrew Joyce, Ph.D. on December 3, 2016 — 34 Comments

“My house is a decayed house, And the Jew squats on the window-sill” T.S. Eliot, Gerontion, 1920. In a previous article I explored the nature of academic ethno-activism in the deconstruction of the cultural legacy of Ezra Pound. The article adopted the approach of a broad overview, emphasizing the scale of successive critiques and, to […]

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