Review: ‘Israel: A History in 100 Cartoons’ by Colin Shindler

Fathom

Publication Date: February 7, 2023

Theme: Israel/Palestine

Category: Book reviews

A compromised compromise: The limitations of a politics of empathy

Times Literary Supplement

Review of CAN WE TALK ABOUT ISRAEL?
A guide for the curious, confused, and conflicted
384pp. Bloomsbury. £25.
Daniel Sokatch

Publication Date: June 3, 2022

Theme: Conflict Resolution, Civility and Dialogue, Israel/Palestine

Category: Book reviews

Keeping the show on the road

JewThink

Reflections on the lessons for the UK Jewish community of the recent conflagration in Israel/Palestine

Publication Date: May 25, 2021

Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate, Community, Israel/Palestine, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness

Category: Journalism and essays

The pro-Palestine movement is broad but it can’t be a home to antisemitism

The Guardian

Antisemitic incidents in London on the same weekend as protests underline the need for an honest reckoning

Publication Date: May 20, 2021

Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate, Israel/Palestine, Politics

Category: Journalism and essays

Shtisel – the unlikely TV hit about orthodox Jews

Prospect

Publication Date: April 16, 2021

Theme: Culture, Israel/Palestine, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness

Category: Journalism and essays

Tongues and Borders Are Immutable

Norient

Publication Date: December 4, 2020

Theme: Israel/Palestine, Language, Music

Category: Journalism and essays

Strategic Ignorance and the Threat of Knowledge in the Globalisation of Music

'One Nation Under a Groove – »Nation« als Kategorie populärer Musik.' von Appen, R. and Hindrichs, T. (eds) Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, pp. 207–228.

Publication Date: November 9, 2020

Theme: Denial, Ignorance and Stupidity, Israel/Palestine, Metal Music and Culture, Music

Category: Book chapters

Annexation Means AIPAC Can Pack Up and Go Home

Haaretz

Annexing the West Bank punctures useful delusions about Israel and Zionism which have, until now, kept together otherwise fractious Diaspora Jewish communities – and their proudly 'big tent' organizations

Publication Date: May 20, 2020

Theme: Community, Israel/Palestine, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness

Category: Journalism and essays

British Jews and Israel – how is the relationship evolving? A Symposium (Contributor)

Fathom Journal

Publication Date: November 2018

Theme: Israel/Palestine, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness

Category: Interviews, Journalism and essays

We need to live with our differences on Israel

Jewish Chronicle

We need a new way to resolve dispute in our community, says Keith Kahn-Harris

Publication Date: May 31, 2018

Theme: Conflict Resolution, Civility and Dialogue, Israel/Palestine, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness

Category: Journalism and essays

Orphaned Land: the Israeli heavy metal band with fans across the Middle East

New Statesman

The band fuse Jewish and Arab music with heavier sounds, but they can't escape the contraditions at the heart of their homeland.

Publication Date: March 5, 2018

Theme: Israel/Palestine, Jews and Metal, Metal Music and Culture

Category: Journalism and essays, Music reviews

Book Review: Obligation in exile: the Jewish diaspora, Israel and critique, by Ilan Zvi Baron,

Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 17(1)

Publication Date: 2018

Theme: Israel/Palestine, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness

Category: Book reviews

Excuse all the blood

So Fi Zine

My first attempt at fiction! Based very very loosely on my PhD fieldwork on the Israeli metal scene.

Publication Date: June 24, 2017

Theme: Israel/Palestine, Metal Music and Culture, Miscellaneous, Personal/Memoire

Category: Journalism and essays

Antisemitism and divisions over Israel in diaspora Jewish communities: The exploitation of Jewish difference

Lansdown Lecture, University of Victoria

Date: June 9, 2017

Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate, Conflict Resolution, Civility and Dialogue, Israel/Palestine, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness

Category: Academic lectures and papers

Book Review: Tragic Encounters and Ordinary Ethics: Palestine-Israel in British Universities by Ruth Sheldon

Fathom Journal

Publication Date: Winter 2016

Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate, Conflict Resolution, Civility and Dialogue, Israel/Palestine

Category: Book reviews

How it might have been, and might be yet

Jewish Chronicle

Review of: Judenstaat by Simone Zelitch and Central Station by Lavie Tidhar

Publication Date: October 14, 2016

Theme: Culture, Israel/Palestine

Category: Book reviews

Is Split Over Israel a Luxury Restricted to Countries With No Anti-Semitism?

The Forward

Discusses Dov Waxman's book 'Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict Over Israel'

Publication Date: April 12, 2016

Theme: Community, Conflict Resolution, Civility and Dialogue, Israel/Palestine, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness

Category: Book reviews, Journalism and essays

Review: Losing Israel by Jasmine Donahaye

Journal of European Popular Culture 7(1) ,79-80

Publication Date: 2016

Theme: Israel/Palestine

Category: Book reviews

Book Review: Diasporic Activism in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by Svenja Gertheiss

Fathom Journal

Publication Date: Spring 2016

Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate, Israel/Palestine

Category: Book reviews

Review: Jews Against Themselves by Edward Alexander

Jewish Quarterly

Publication Date: Winter 2015

Theme: Israel/Palestine, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness

Category: Book reviews

Zionism for the people

Jewish Chronicle

Review of: Words of Fire: Selected Essays of Ahad Ha’am, edited by Brian Klug

Publication Date: November 19, 2015

Theme: Israel/Palestine

Category: Book reviews

The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A Treasury of Solutions

My Impossible Books: 24

Publication Date: October 24, 2015

Theme: Impossible Books, Israel/Palestine

Category: Journalism and essays

Being Civil Doesn’t Have to Mean Remaining Silent

Chronicle of Higher Education

Publication Date: October 8, 2015

Theme: Conflict Resolution, Civility and Dialogue, Israel/Palestine

Category: Journalism and essays

Loosening of the Zionist bond

Jewish Chronicle

Publication Date: March 26, 2015

Theme: Community, Israel/Palestine, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness

Category: Journalism and essays

Do British Jews Have Better Approach to Strife Over Israel?

The Forward

Publication Date: September 16, 2014

Theme: Community, Conflict Resolution, Civility and Dialogue, Israel/Palestine, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness

Category: Journalism and essays

Stop the Pretense: There’s No Consensus Among Diaspora Jews on Israel

Haaretz

Those attacking the mainstream institutions of UK Jewry for its stance during the Gaza conflict have come not just from the Israel-critical left - but also a newly combative and vocal pro-Israel bloc.

Publication Date: September 2, 2014

Theme: Israel/Palestine, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness

Category: Journalism and essays

What British Jews really think about the Gaza conflict

The Guardian

The British Jewish community is often portrayed as being united on Israel – but opinion is far more complex and wide-ranging than that

Publication Date: July 23, 2014

Theme: Israel/Palestine, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness

Category: Journalism and essays

Panelist: ‘How has religion been an agent for peace-building in conflict areas of the world?’

Westminster Faith Debates

Date: May 14, 2014

Theme: Conflict Resolution, Civility and Dialogue, Israel/Palestine, Religion

Category: Other talks (selected)

What we fight about when we fight about Israel

Times of Israel

Diaspora communities are addressing their internal conflicts through a Zionist lens

Publication Date: March 18, 2014

Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate, Conflict Resolution, Civility and Dialogue, Israel/Palestine, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness

Category: Journalism and essays

Keith Kahn-Harris on Uncivil War: The Israel Conflict in the Jewish Community

Hedgehog and Fox

Date: March 3, 2014

Theme: Conflict Resolution, Civility and Dialogue, Israel/Palestine, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness

Category: Podcasts

Israel’s zero-sum game for the diaspora

Jewish Chronicle

Publication Date: March 3, 2014

Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate, Israel/Palestine, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness

Category: Journalism and essays

Book review: The Girl Who Stole My Holocaust, By Noam Chayut, trans. Tal Haran What Do You Buy the Children of the Terrorist Who Tried to Kill Your Wife?, By David Harris-Gershon

The Independent

Two brave memoirs reach out across the barriers that divide the peoples of Israel and Palestine

Publication Date: October 11, 2013

Theme: Israel/Palestine

Category: Book reviews

Review: Beyond the Two State Solution: A Jewish Political Essay by Yehouda Shenhav

European Judaism 46(2), 147-148

Publication Date: 2013

Theme: Israel/Palestine

Category: Book reviews

The Dog That Didn’t Bark: Why the UK Jewish Community Supported Operation Pillar of Defence

Jewish Quarterly

Publication Date: Winter 2012

Theme: Community, Israel/Palestine, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness

Category: Journalism and essays

In times of crisis, UK Jews return to public support for Israel

New Statesman

The diversity of views that has developed has been temporarily obscured by Operation Pillar of Defence

Publication Date: November 23, 2012

Theme: Israel/Palestine, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness

Category: Journalism and essays

Iranian and Israeli activists should form a new alliance for peace (Co-authored with Shirin Barghi and Joel Schalit)

The Guardian

As conflict between Israel and Iran looms, interfaith and community activists in the UK could build an anti-war coalition

Publication Date: October 17, 2012

Theme: Conflict Resolution, Civility and Dialogue, Israel/Palestine, Politics

Category: Journalism and essays

Book Review: The Making and Unmaking of a Zionist by Tony Lerman

Times Literary Supplement

Publication Date: August 10, 2012

Theme: Israel/Palestine, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness

Category: Book reviews

Book Review: Jerusalem by Guy Delisle

Jewish Chronicle

Publication Date: June 1, 2012

Theme: Israel/Palestine

Category: Book reviews

Shhh! Don’t mention Israel

New Statesman

British Jews are beginning what will be a long and painful process – to recognise the existence of pluralism on Israel, says Keith Kahn-Harris.

Publication Date: May 23, 2012

Theme: Israel/Palestine, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness

Category: Journalism and essays

Non-Jewish Jews

Jewish Quarterly 220

Review of ‘The Wandering Who?’ by Gilad Atzmon and ‘Jewish Identity and Palestinian Rights’ by David Landy

Publication Date: Winter 2011

Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate, Israel/Palestine, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness

Category: Book reviews

Book Review: The Universal Jew: Masculinity, modernity and the Zionist moment by Mikhal Dekel

Times Literary Supplement

Publication Date: September 16, 2011

Theme: Israel/Palestine, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness

Category: Book reviews

People power needs people

Jewish Chronicle

Publication Date: July 4, 2011

Theme: Community, Israel/Palestine, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness

Category: Journalism and essays

United States of Invisibility: Unseeing Israel/Palestine

Souciant

Publication Date: June 8, 2011

Theme: Best Of, Israel/Palestine

Category: Journalism and essays

A war of rhetoric: the Israel-Palestine vortex

Open Democracy

A fevered dispute in the media contest over Israel-Palestine is an object lesson in the deformities of internet-fuelled public debate on this issue, says Keith Kahn-Harris.

Publication Date: May 23, 2011

Theme: Conflict Resolution, Civility and Dialogue, Israel/Palestine

Category: Journalism and essays

Review: Playing Across a Divide: Israeli–Palestinian Musical Encounters. By Benjamin Brinner

Popular Music 29(3) 480-482

Publication Date: 2010

Theme: Conflict Resolution, Civility and Dialogue, Israel/Palestine, Music

Category: Book reviews

In search of an Israeli left (Co-authored with Joel Schalit)

Open Democracy

The disconnection between the international left and its counterparts in Israel has become near total, to the detriment of the causes that both espouse. But a situation with complex roots can be remedied by looking more closely at the work of people on the ground, say Keith Kahn-Harris & Joel Schalit.

Publication Date: August 22, 2010

Theme: Israel/Palestine, Politics

Category: Journalism and essays

Why is Turkey only now the villain of the piece?

Jewish Chronicle

Israel’s protests — in the wake of the flotilla crisis — at Turkish misdeeds are cynical in the extreme

Publication Date: July 1, 2010

Theme: Israel/Palestine

Category: Journalism and essays

Israeli post-democracy: origins and prospects (Co-authored with Joel Schalit)

Open Democracy

Many voices warn that Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories is corroding the country’s democracy. Now, a worrying onslaught by Israel’s right-wing government on domestic dissenters raises further concerns. But the two issues are distinct as well as linked, say Keith Kahn-Harris & Joel Schalit: for the challenges to Israel’s democracy also have deep internal roots that must be identified if they are to be overcome.

Publication Date: June 10, 2010

Theme: Israel/Palestine

Category: Journalism and essays

An Israel-Palestine like no other nation (Co-authored with Joel Schalit)

The Guardian

Progressive Zionists preparing for the failure of Obama's peace plan should start thinking about a new model of statehood

Publication Date: April 21, 2010

Theme: Israel/Palestine

Category: Journalism and essays

JNews: a potential voice for peace

The Guardian

To win moral authority in the Jewish community, the new website must apply its critical perspective evenly on Israel-Palestine

Publication Date: March 20, 2010

Theme: Community, Israel/Palestine, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness

Category: Journalism and essays

‘A Tango Between God and Satan’

The Forward

Article on Israeli metal band Orphaned Land, featuring interview with vocalist Kobi Farhi

Publication Date: January 27, 2010

Theme: Israel/Palestine, Jews and Metal, Metal Music and Culture

Category: Journalism and essays

We all have views on Israel so let’s hear them

Jewish Chronicle

Instead of striving for a united front, we should acknowledge our differences

Publication Date: December 29, 2009

Theme: Community, Conflict Resolution, Civility and Dialogue, Israel/Palestine, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness

Category: Journalism and essays

Civilising the debate

The Guardian

A bitter exchange of emails between academics at Ben Gurion University highlights the need for calmer way to talk about Israel

Publication Date: December 16, 2009

Theme: Conflict Resolution, Civility and Dialogue, Israel/Palestine

Category: Journalism and essays

The Fascination of Israel

The Forward

Review of: Israel vs. Utopia by Joel Schalit; The Myths of Liberal Zionism by Yitzhak Laor; A Living Revolution: Anarchism in the Kibbutz Movement by James Horrox

Publication Date: December 16, 2009

Theme: Israel/Palestine

Category: Book reviews

Israel and Britain

Zeek ('Israelology' print issue)

Publication Date: Fall 2009

Theme: Israel/Palestine

Category: Journalism and essays

Panellist: ‘Solidarity from afar’

Psycho-Political Resistance in Israel-Palestine’, Birkbeck College,

Date: October 15, 2009

Theme: Israel/Palestine

Category: Other talks (selected)

British Jews and Israel: a new relationship?

The Guardian

A letter calling for an Israeli ceasefire by a respected coalition could at least signal a new, more critical dialogue

Publication Date: June 13, 2009

Theme: Israel/Palestine, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness

Category: Journalism and essays

Debating the debate (panellist)

Jewish Quarterly

A discussion about how Israel divides the UK Jewish community

Publication Date: Spring 2009

Theme: Community, Conflict Resolution, Civility and Dialogue, Israel/Palestine, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness

Category: Interviews

Jews talking about talking about Israel

Haaretz

Israel has become the major source of dissensus in the Jewish world, bringing with it real threats to Jewish peoplehood and community.

Publication Date: May 22, 2009

Theme: Conflict Resolution, Civility and Dialogue, Israel/Palestine, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness

Category: Journalism and essays

The politics of ME, ME, ME (Co-authored with David Hayes)

Open Democracy

Publication Date: January 9, 2009

Theme: Conflict Resolution, Civility and Dialogue, Israel/Palestine, Miscellaneous

Category: Journalism and essays

British Jews Speak Out

Zeek

Discusses ‘A Time to Speak Out: Independent Jewish Voices on Israel, Zionism and Jewish Identity’ edited by Anne Karpf et al

Publication Date: November 25, 2008

Theme: Community, Israel/Palestine, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness

Category: Book reviews, Journalism and essays

A real peace movement?

The Guardian

We need a peace movement that recognises the pain and the suffering on both sides in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Publication Date: March 6, 2008

Theme: Israel/Palestine

Category: Journalism and essays

Chair: ‘Postcards from the Unholy Land’

Jewish Book Week 2007

Panellists included Avi Pitchon and Etgar Keret

Date: 2007

Theme: Culture, Israel/Palestine

Category: Other talks (selected)

Preparing for the Pains of Peace

Sh'ma

Publication Date: November 1, 2005

Theme: Israel/Palestine

Category: Journalism and essays

“I hate this fucking country”: Dealing with the Global and the Local in the Israeli Extreme Metal Scene

Critical Studies Volume 19: Music, Popular Culture, Identities, 133-151

Publication Date: January 1, 2002

Theme: Israel/Palestine, Jews and Metal, Metal Music and Culture

Category: Journal articles

An Orphaned Land?: Israel and the Global Extreme Metal Scene

New Voices in Jewish Thought Volume 2, 1-21

German translation: ‘Ein Verwaistes Land? Israel und die Extreme Metal-Szene’ in Testcard 9, 2001

Publication Date: November 1, 1999

Theme: Israel/Palestine, Jews and Metal, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness, Metal Music and Culture

Category: Book chapters