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Ben Gidley

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Covers:  racism, antisemitism, Jewish communities, migration, diversity, the far right, conspiracy theories, Syria.

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Ben Gidley’s Biography

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Scholar, author and commentator based in London.

Books: Community Engagement and Community Cohesion, with Marjorie Mayo et al (Policy Press, 2008); Turbulent Times: The British Jewish Community Today, with Keith Kahn-Harris (Bloomsbury, 2010); Ethnography, Diversity and Urban Space, with Mette Louise Berg and Nando Sigona (Routledge, 2015); Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe: A Shared Story?, with James Renton (Palgrave, 2017); Jews and Muslims in Europe: Between Discourse and Experience…

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Diane Abbott's Suspension Highlights the Complexity of Different Types of Racism

Diane Abbott's Suspension Highlights the Complexity of Different Types of Racism

Rather than a zero sum approach, we need a 360 degree politics of solidarity.

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The truth in Diane Abbott's ill-judged remarks

The truth in Diane Abbott's ill-judged remarks

Politicians need to find better of ways of thinking about racism-and of acting against it

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Racism and antisemitism in the hostile environment: three texts

Racism and antisemitism in the hostile environment: three texts

In this post, we publish materials from our March 2025 webinar on antisemitism and the Hostile Environment: t…

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Even the rain feels better

Even the rain feels better

Dr Ben Gidley shares his own reflections on Goldsmithths' Centre for Urban and Community Research from the an…

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Understanding Confusionism and Diagonalism, by Ben Gidley - 11 May 2025

Understanding Confusionism and Diagonalism, by Ben Gidley - 11 May 2025

A few months into Donald Trump's presidency, widely considered to be the most right-wing administration the U…

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Episode III: Dr. Daniella Shaw and Dr. Ben Gidley

Episode III: Dr. Daniella Shaw and Dr. Ben Gidley

Beyond Encounters - the Podcast of the Encounters Research project moderated by Dr. Vanessa Rau and Shai Hoff…

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Articles

The difficult truth about antisemitism

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By David Feldman, Ben Gidley, Brendan McGeever
| Prospect Magazine Verified
The murderous attack this month on worshippers at a Manchester synagogue on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, has left many Jews in Britain with a sense of foreboding. Given the timing of the attack—on the eve of a fragile ceasefire in Gaza—many MPs and Jewish leaders understood the shocking scene at Heaton Park as a coda to the two-year period since Hamas’s 7th October massacre in southern Israel.
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Diane Abbott's Suspension Highlights the Complexity of Different Types of Racism

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By Ben Gidley, David Feldman, Brendan McGeever
| politicalquarterly.org.uk
Diane Abbott–Britain’s first black woman MP and the longest serving woman in parliament, a veteran anti–racist with a large number of Jewish people in her Hackney constituency–has been suspended from the Labour Party for a second time after a BBC interview in which she appeared to place anti-black racism above antisemitism in a hierarchy of racisms: “It's silly to try and claim that racism which is about skin colour is the same as other types of racism".
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The truth in Diane Abbott’s ill-judged remarks

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By David Feldman, Ben Gidley, Brendan McGeever
| Prospect Magazine Verified
Talking about racism and antisemitism can get you into trouble, as Diane Abbott knows well. The MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington has been suspended from the Labour Party for a second time for her remarks on the subject. The first occasion was in April 2023, when Abbott asserted in a letter published in the Observer that Jewish people and Travellers experience “prejudice”, just like redheads, but that only black people are subject to racism “all their lives”.
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Interview

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Not for a long time!

What's your favorite drink?

French red vermouth with a couple of big ice cubes and a slice of orange

Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?

Currently, New Lines magazine and Vittles.com