Book review: Israelophobia by Jake Wallis Simons
New Humanist
Is “Israelophobia” a new form of hatred, or are we rehashing the same old debate?
Publication Date: Spring 2024 issues
Theme: Israel/Palestine
Category: Book reviews
Writings
Here you can find a record of almost all my publications – from scholarly journal articles to newspaper articles – listed with the most recent first. In most cases there is either a downloadable pdf or a link to the publication itself. You can search by publication type (academic, non-academic, book reviews etc), by theme and by keyword. Enjoy!
Fetishized Weakness: The Denial of Agency Within Palestinian Solidarity Movements
Left Responds
Publication Date: February 12, 2024
Theme: Israel/Palestine, Politics
Category: Journalism and essays
The Swedish band providing history with heavy metal
The New European
Sabaton’s animated first world war film, To End All Wars, makes for poetic viewing
Publication Date: January 3, 2024
Theme: Metal Music and Culture
Category: Journalism and essays
Response to: ‘For a consistently democratic and internationalist left’
Publication Date: December 31, 2023
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate, Israel/Palestine, Politics
Category: Journalism and essays
Why Elton John’s Watford FC Chairmanship Was His Finest Hour
The Quietus
Lifelong Watford FC fan Keith Kahn-Harris looks at Elton John's time as chairman of the club, his friendship with Graham Taylor, and asks why the music industry couldn’t offer the megastar the solace that football could. Images all courtesy Alan Cozzi Archive & Watford FC
Publication Date: December 6, 2023
Theme: Music
Category: Book reviews, Journalism and essays
The left fails to appreciate competing loyalties
New Statesman
Cooperation between Palestinian and Jewish Israelis is the only model for a peaceful future.
Publication Date: December 1, 2023
Theme: Israel/Palestine, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness, Politics
Category: Journalism and essays
On Being Complicit: Israel-Palestine Abroad
The Battleground
Publication Date: November 27, 2023
Theme: Israel/Palestine
Category: Journalism and essays
The war over here: How are we supposed to get through this?
Jewish News
Publication Date: November 3, 2023
Theme: Israel/Palestine, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Journalism and essays
Negli ovetti sorpresa kinder un patrimonio linguistico
La Stampa Torinosette
Interview with Italian newspaper
Publication Date: October 6, 2023
Theme: Denial, Ignorance and Stupidity
Category: Interviews
Reissue Of The Week: Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense
The Quietus
What do we forget when we remember Stop Making Sense? As the reissue of Talking Heads’ seminal concert film hits the screens, Keith Kahn-Harris reminds us of how much stranger and more interesting the band were before it
Publication Date: September 22, 2023
Theme: Music
Category: Journalism and essays, Music reviews
Love & Disappointment: Peter Gabriel Live
The Quietus
Keith Kahn-Harris is haunted by a childhood humiliation as he experiences the 2023 live version of Pater Gabriel. All photographs by York Tillyer
Publication Date: June 21, 2023
Theme: Metal Music and Culture, Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays, Music reviews
Baseball in the killing fields of Kutno
The New European
Understandably, many Jews have reservations abut Poland. Today, baseball is helping change that, one game at a time
Publication Date: June 7, 2023
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness, Personal/Memoire, Small worlds
Category: Journalism and essays
What Are We Rejecting When We Reject St. Anger? Metallica’s Mid-Life Crisis At Twenty
The Quietus
Is it time to re-evaluate Metallica's least-loved album and celebrate it for the extraordinary work that it is? But enough about Lulu. Keith Kahn-Harris wants to talk about St. Anger…
Publication Date: June 5, 2023
Theme: Metal Music and Culture
Category: Journalism and essays, Music reviews
The field of research on contemporary antisemitism and Jewish life: Working towards a European research hub (co-authored with Jonathan Boyd)
The EU Strategy on Combating Antisemitism and Fostering Jewish Life commits the European Commission to supporting research on antisemitism and contemporary Jewish life, and creating a European research hub in this field. To that end, this report maps the current field of research on antisemitism and contemporary European Jewish life, to determine how the proposed hub might support and enhance research in these areas. The methodology for the study draws on the European Jewish Research Archive – the only comprehensive database containing work undertaken in this field since 1990 – to identify key researchers and institutions, and assess which topics and countries have greater or lesser research coverage. The report concludes that the field has limited structure or cohesion as it currently exists, and few means of consolidation as a research community. In response, it makes key recommendations about what a research hub should do, and how it should be structured to best support the field.
Publication Date: March 31, 2023
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Reports and policy papers
Review of ‘To Know The Light’ by Dawn Ray’d
The Quietus
Publication Date: March 27, 2023
Theme: Metal Music and Culture
Category: Music reviews
An Experiment in Musical Comprehension (Co-authored with Ann Morgan)
Riffs
Publication Date: March 2023
Theme: Metal Music and Culture, Music
Category: Journal articles, Journalism and essays, Music reviews
Defending Israeli democracy: Can the coalition hold?
Jewish News
Publication Date: March 24, 2023
Theme: Israel/Palestine, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Journalism and essays
The Texture of Everyday Life
New Humanist
Review of 'Britain's Jews: Confidence, Maturity, Anxiety' by Harry Freedman
Publication Date: Spring 2023
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