'The Imperial Sessions Part 2' Conversations on Fascism & Media
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Video Episode 5
Vid version updates on Youtube + Spotify some weeks after initial audio-only release.
Ancient Hatreds (Or New Antisemitism, and the Left’s ‘Muslim Problem’ with Dr. Jonathan Galton)
In Part 2 of The Imperial Sessions series I'm joined by Dr. Jonathan Galton to talk about his upcoming book 'Does Islamo-Leftism exist? British-Left-Muslim connections beyond the caricatures'. Jonathan shared with me a chapter titled 'Is the Left antisemitic?' and that spurred us to record a conversation unpacking his research and reflecting on what it all means in this current moment.
We talk
- Histories of Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism and 'New Antisemitism'
- Palestine as a 'Left wing' cause
- 'Islamo-leftism'
- The UK Left's 'Muslim problem'
- The UK Left and Antisemitism
- Conflation as an active practice
- Self contextualising
- An Arab in the West
- Positionality and abandoning 'outsider research'
- 'Unholy alliance' narratives
- Dehumanisation
- Zohran Mamdani, Brad Lander and Stephen Colbert
- Islamophobia and the Left
- Centring the research subject
- The centring of Israel in discussions about Jewish identity
- Rise of Judaeo-Christian unity
- Ol' Rhodesia
- We are the quota
- The re-branding of Palestinian resistance
- The 'coalition of the willing'
- Joe Biden *sigh*
- 'Middle-classification'
- 'Political Blackness'
- 'Islamist cranks'
- You should listen to The Trojan Horse Affair.
- "We're all we got".
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CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
9:42 Introductory chat
20:51 Introduction to Jonathan’s current research on "Islamo-Leftism"
narratives
35:20 Overview of Jonathan’s book chapter dissecting tropes of "Left/Muslim antisemitism"
39:09 History of British Jews and the Labour Party's shifting relationship to Israel ("Jewish entry into whiteness", impact of holocaust, "Judaeo-Bolshevik",'
"Judaeo-Christian"
49:00 Shifting modes of antisemitism in the 18th century ("emancipation of Jewry") and 20th century (the "new antisemitism")
56:00 Anti-capitalism, antisemitism and anti-Arab sentiment in the
1970s and beyond
1:02:33 Alaska sits Jonathan’s my lap
1:02:30 Antisemitism in Islamic contexts (historical and contemporary) and the myth of "ancient hatred"
1:07:28 The Labour Party "antisemitism" crisis; blurring of anti-Zionism and antisemitism (real and imagined)
1:20:50 Palestine marches and accusations of antisemitism and Islamo-Leftism
1:31:20 Gaza as an electoral issue
1:40:50 Final thoughts
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7emSDa7IMxIgAU2vZv4xPr
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You can download Jonathan's monograph 'Fake Gods and False History: Being Indian in a contested Mumbai neighbourhood' for FREE here:
https://uclpress.co.uk/book/fake-gods-and-false-history/
+ check out his latest album All The Years: https://open.spotify.com/album/2idFSAr6PRYW4xW9syTyN1?si=Uw7f0OBjRwarGLW4BJWDiw
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