Keith Kahn-Harris
By Keith Kahn-Harris
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Opinion Jewish community has gone virtual. But it’s my neighbors I’m discovering and leaning on.
Earlier this week, I received a WhatsApp message from a neighbor. She was at the supermarket and wanted to know if I needed anything. The message might seem prosaic and mundane, but I would never have received anything like it even a couple of weeks before. Although my family and I have lived on the…
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Opinion John Cusack Is What Happens When Anti-Semitism Becomes Convenient
And this week’s anti-Semitism controversy comes to you courtesy of… John Cusack! Yes, here we go again: A public figure tweets something anti-Semitic, semi-apologizes, and then we move on to the next outrage. This is disgusting pic.twitter.com/4b2RlPrNfL — Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) June 17, 2019 My weary tone doesn’t mean I’m not upset by Cusack’s…
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Opinion Don’t Fall For Selective Anti-Semites Just Because You’re Their ‘Good’ Jew
There was a time, not so very long ago, when it was possible for Jews to live our lives in at least some Diaspora countries without thinking about Anti-Semitism much at all. It was always there of course, and its history may have sometimes hung heavy on us, but anti-Semitism did not force its attention…
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Opinion Accusing Minorities Of Anti-Semitism Will Always Lead To Racism
Donald Trump’s ongoing attacks on Representative Ilhan Omar — including his shameless attempt to twist her words to imply that she was at best apathetic about the 9/11 attacks — should provoke some soul-searching among US Jewish leaders and opinion formers. WE WILL NEVER FORGET! pic.twitter.com/VxrGFRFeJM — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 12, 2019 As…
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Opinion Sorry, British Non-Jews: You Don’t Get To Decide Who The Good Jews Are
It’s a very strange time to be a Jew in Britain. With the issue of anti-Semitism in Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party dominating the headlines for the last couple of weeks, we’ve now reached the point where arcane questions of Jewish communal politics are now of national interest. The latest example concerns Jewdas, an irreverent collective…
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Opinion Cloaked In Pretensions, Gilad Atzmon’s Anti-Semitism Soldiers On
Perhaps one of the defining features of anti-Semitism is the irresistible desire of many of its proponents for intellectual respectability. Anti-Semites are known to nestle their “critique” of Jewishness within a broader scholarly scheme. Of course, the desire for intellectual respectability doesn’t mean that anti-Semitism attracts the best minds of every generation; but it certainly…
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Opinion Is Split Over Israel a Luxury Restricted to Countries With No Anti-Semitism?
The most surprising thing about Dov Waxman’s new book, is that nobody has published a book like it before. True, my 2014 book, “Uncivil War: The Israel Conflict in the Jewish Community,” covered the same basic issue, but it focused more on the United Kingdom’s Jewish community than it did on the situation in the…
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Opinion Do British Jews Have Better Approach to Strife Over Israel?
While I spend much of my time researching and writing about the British Jewish community, I’ve always been a keen observer of the American Jewish community. So it was fascinating to discover during a recent teaching visit to Houston that my British Jewish preoccupations seemed to resonate so strongly with Jews there. Much of my…
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