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1 year

My new piece in the @guardian on why liberal antiracists - with their emphasis on correcting vocabulary, diversity training, and unconscious biases - are powerless against today's structures of racism.

There are two kinds of antiracism. Only one works, and it has nothing to do with 'diversity...

While liberal antiracists argue over vocabulary, radicals take direct action – which is the only way to change the system, says author Arun Kundnani

www.theguardian.com

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My new book "What is Antiracism? And Why it Means Anticapitalism" is published today. You can order a copy from the @VersoBooks website, where there's currently 20% off the price of the hardback:

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If Sanders were the Dem candidate, we'd be talking about the healthcare of millions of people, not just two. #StillSanders

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After 9/11, there were 3 ways of explaining Islamophobia in the US: 1) it was a spontaneous reaction to 9/11; 2) it was always present in US culture; 3) it was a function of the US-Israel relationship since 1967 - the view I took, along with scholars like @ProfessorKumar . 🧵

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Racism is not about causing hurt feelings to a group of people because you said something that upset them. It is a power relationship organized through the state. The denial of the most basic humanity to Palestinians is a correlate of Western imperialism.

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This is @GhassanAbuSitt1 , a surgeon who is currently saving the lives of Palestinians in a hospital in Gaza. He's just reported that counter terrorism police have showed up at his house in the UK and harrased his family.

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Today Jamil Al Amin turns 80 years old. In the late 1960s, he was famous as H. Rap Brown, the chair of SNCC and a leading figure in the Black Power movement. Now he is a political prisoner - held at a federal prison in Tucson - and largely erased from public memory. 🧵

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@ProfessorKumar The resurrection of anti-Muslim racism is directly related to the need of the US political class to defend Israel's mass murder in Gaza. Only by presenting Arabs/Muslims as inherently barbaric can the violence against them be justified.

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@ProfessorKumar Events this month have confirmed our analysis in the most awful way. Anti-Muslim propaganda and violence that had dwindled somewhat in the last few years, with the War on Terror no longer on the front pages, has returned quickly and forcefully.

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Anti-racist training is the graveyard of struggle because structural racism doesn't care about your individual attitudes. Full text of this argument - a talk I gave on Friday at Goldsmiths College - is here:

Training is the Graveyard of Struggle: An Anti-Racist History - Arun Kundnani

The following is the text of a talk given at Goldsmiths College’s Department of Media, Communication, and Cultural Studies on December 11, 2020. Anti-racist training should not be part of the demands...

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@ProfessorKumar The murder of 6-year-old Wadea Al-Fayoume, and the attempted murder of his mother, in Illinois is the most egregious example. But so too are the FBI agents knocking on doors of Palestinians. The Israelis who call this their 9/11 are right but not in the way they are thinking.

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My new Nation article on a Black Muslim man who found out his wife was an FBI informant tasked with spying on him. http://t.co/hUOqmewOQd

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My new book, out in June, is called "What is Antiracism? And Why it Means Anticapitalism" It's a history of the different meanings antiracism has had, and why liberal antiracism doesn't work in the neoliberal age.

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New academic article: "The racial constitution of neoliberalism." On Friedrich Hayek’s theory of cultural evolution and the failure of mainstream US and European Left scholarship to recognize the centrality of racism and colonialism to neoliberalism.

The racial constitution of neoliberalism - Arun Kundnani, 2021

Prevailing scholarship on neoliberalism fails to recognise that it generates its own distinctive forms of racial domination. Influential analysts such as Wolfga...

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This is what gets forgotten when people debate whether the #MuslimBan is a valid national security measure.

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Three students shot last night in Burlington, Vermont, for wearing their keffiyehs. I will be wearing mine today in solidarity. You should too.

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Three young Palestinian men, Hisham Awartani, Tahseen Ali and Kenan Abdulhamid, students at Brown and other US universities, were shot last night on their way to a family dinner in Burlington, USA. Their crime? Wearing the Palestinian keffiyeh. They are critically injured. And

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Non-Muslims appeared on CNN 90 times to discuss the #MuslimBan ; 7 appearances by Muslims to discuss it.

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. @JeanneTheoharis and I have a new piece in @jacobinmag that seeks to apply abolitionist arguments to the US counter-terrorism system. Rather than expand the "terrorism" discourse to include white nationalism, as many liberals are proposing, better to scrap it altogether.

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Declaring white nationalism a form of terrorism won’t combat white nationalism — but it will grant more arbitrary powers to a carceral state that preys on the most vulnerable.

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Whatever you think about @jeremycorbyn and anti-Semitism, this is just astoundingly wrong. To believe this, you would have to ignore outspoken political attacks on Blacks, Asians, refugees, Muslims by ministers of every government from Heath to May that have fuelled state racism.

The New Statesman

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6 years

Exclusive: Jeremy Corbyn is “an anti-Semite” and his “Zionist” remarks were the “most offensive” since Enoch Powell’s “Rivers of Blood”, says former chief rabbi Jonathan Sacks.

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When the near-universal message proclaimed by the US establishment is that Israel’s mass slaughter of Gazan civilians is simply an act of self-defense against terrorists, it is inevitable that anti-Muslim racism will intensify. My latest for @The_NewArab

Islamophobia in the US is rooted in total support for Israel

Tracing the rise of Islamophobia, from the 1973 oil embargo to Trump's election to Hamas's attack, Arun Kundnani argues that support for Israel is central. But Americans are finally starting to see...

www.newarab.com

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The best book on anti-racism you probably haven’t read: a new edition of Sivanandan’s Communities of Resistance is out today with a preface by @garyyounge and an introduction by me.

Communities of Resistance

Ambalavaner Sivanandan was one of Britain’s most influential radical thinkers. As Director of the Institute of Race Relations for forty years, his work changed the way that we think about race,...

www.versobooks.com

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I posted the transcript of my "What is racial capitalism?" talk that I did last week at the Havens Wright Center for Social Justice at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, discussing the anti-Apartheid struggle, Cedric Robinson, and Stuart Hall.

What is racial capitalism? - Arun Kundnani

Text of a talk by Arun Kundnani at the Havens Wright Center for Social Justice, University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 15, 2020 A more detailed and updated version of the argument in this lecture...

www.kundnani.org

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Tickets still available to hear Ruth Wilson Gilmore and me in conversation about my new book WHAT IS ANTIRACISM? AND WHY IT MEANS ANTICAPITALISM - at SOAS, London, on 13 July.

What Is Antiracism?

A book launch and conversation with Dr Arun Kundnani, author of 'What Is Antiracism? And Why It Means Anticapitalism', also featuring Ruth Wilson Gilmore.

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Over the last several months, I've been working with friends to think about what alternatives to the War on Terror a Labour government ought to pursue if it comes to power in the UK. Next Wednesday we're launching our report at an event in parliament hosted by Diane Abbott MP.

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Trump’s political project connects popular rage at the failures of capitalism to a narrative of white victimhood.

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The US has exported violence to the Middle East for decades, yet refuses to offer sanctuary to those fleeing consequences of that violence.

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Kojo Koram and me made a video on WHAT IS ANTIRACISM? We talked about why liberal antiracism has proven powerless against structural oppression and what a radical alternative would look like.

The Problem with Liberal Antiracism | Arun Kundnani and Kojo Koram

Arun Kundnani and Kojo Koram discuss why antiracism has to be about dismantling structures power. Liberal antiracism has proven powerless against structural ...

www.youtube.com

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An exceptionally stupid sentence in the NYT: "As the tectonic plates of Buddhism and Islam collide, a portion of Buddhists are abandoning the peaceful tenets of their religion." Terrible metaphor. And Buddhist violence in Sri Lanka has existed since 1950s.

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London folks: I'll be in conversation with @KojoKoram at @Foyles bookshop later this month to talk about my new book "What is antiracism? And why it means anticapitalism." Come down! Tickets here:

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Apparently @CNN said I am a "Muslim writer". I'm an atheist not Muslim. But I will always stand with Muslims or anyone else facing racism.

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Vught was a Nazi concentration camp in the Netherlands where my grandfather was imprisoned. Today the same site is a specialist detention center for Muslims. What does this tell us about racism? Read an extract from my new book at @novaramedia :

The Hidden Racism That Turned a Nazi Concentration Camp Into a Detention Centre for Muslims |...

In 1943, Arun Kundnani’s grandfather was detained in a Nazi concentration camp. Today, the site is divided between a memorial and a detention centre where Muslims are mentally tortured.

novaramedia.com

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6 years

We’d learn more about the decline of public discourse if we figured out how a weird Trotskyist cult from the 80s called the RCP was able to reinvent itself as a network of far-right media provocateurs and corporate lackeys, like Munira Mirza

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Another good piece on excellent website by Munira Mirza on the decline of Britain’s race debate. A must read for @DavidLammy who’s lately become an uncritical channeller of black anger/victimhood, changing nothing for the better

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Verbatim CNN line right now: "The working class feels vindicated by Trump's win" No, the working class mainly voted Dem and is multi-racial.

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8 years

Hope everyone understands that the #BrexitVote is the first time in British political history that the far Right have won a national poll.

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You say you object to the slogan, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” Where in the lands between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea do you think Palestinians should not be free?

Some questions for the 234 representatives who voted to censure Rashid

This is part of an ongoing blog series centered around the phrase "From The River To The Sea." To view the full series click here. You say you object to the slogan, “From the river to the sea,...

www.versobooks.com

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6 years

The dystopian but logical outcome of the UK's Prevent policy: a nursery school in Brighton is admonished for failing to participate in the surveillance of four-year-old kids for signs of terrorism. More than 10 years of this bullshit is enough. End it now!

Anger as Ofsted claims nursery failing to guard against radicalisation

Watchdog criticised for ‘ludicrous’ downgrading of Little Ducklings in Brighton

www.theguardian.com

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5 years

The Guardian's exclusive today about a secret #Prevent database is not really news if you've been paying attention to the issue. But glad it's getting renewed coverage. @UKLabour must commit to abolishing Prevent and deleting the database.

Counter-terror police running secret Prevent database

Exclusive: Details of thousands referred to programme can be viewed without their knowledge

www.theguardian.com

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Normally, this would scream illiberal absurdity. Now, it is just the background noise of repression. "Two women pictured at a pro-Palestinian march in London carrying photos of paragliders have been charged with terrorism offences."

Two women charged over paraglider pictures at pro-Palestinian march in London

Pair accused of terrorism offences after incident at protest on 14 October in Whitehall

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Glaring contradiction at heart of #ObamaSpeech : we mustn't discriminate against Muslims but they're responsible for stopping terrorism.

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Thread: Thanks to the probing of the DCMS committee and its report on fake news, it's now accepted the Leave campaign won the Brexit vote through playing “to the fears and the prejudices of people” on immigration, what I would describe more straightforwardly as racism. 1/11

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Zizek arguing the old right-wing canard that excessive political correctness causes racism. #LeftForum2016

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7 years

Highlight of the day was seeing Richard Spencer get punched right in front of me.

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Hope Amy Goodman questions Zizek today at #LeftForum2016 on his call for "repressive measures" to save European "way of life" from refugees.

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Excited to see this out! A searing account of the traumatizing effects of British state violence and the struggle against it. @RizwaanSabir @PlutoPress

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Support Clinton but don’t feel smug about being a good liberal. You’re choosing Clinton’s bombs over Trump’s bans.

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3/3 What Stuart Hall called in 1979 the Great Moving Right Show has been up and running again for the last few years. Yesterday’s extreme right is today’s center right. The norms of political acceptability keep moving.

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Just out: my interview with @AaronBastani on my new book WHAT IS ANTI-RACISM?

Novara Media

@novaramedia

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On Enoch Powell, racism in the US vs UK and why liberals don’t have the answer when it comes to antiracism. @AaronBastani talks to @ArunKundnani Watch now📺 👇👇

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The FBI named Rap Brown as one of five targets in the Cointel program of 1967. He was the first Black leader of the 1960s to face federal charges. Black Panther artist Emory Douglas painted him as “the man with the match.” Rap brown is a major reason why rap music is called rap.

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When I interviewed Jamil Al Amin in prison two years ago, he told me that Black Power meant “we are not going to be a part of our own oppression in terms of how we see ourselves.” Click here to support the campaign to free Imam Jamil Al Amin --->

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Calling them "terrorists" is understandable but just expands law enforcement powers, feeding the structures that have been central to white supremacy. It's like asking white supremacy to police itself. Great piece by @BayoumiMoustafa in @thenation

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8 years

There are differences between the US and UK police but they are both more likely to kill you if you are black.

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My new article for the Verso blog: "some questions for the 234 representatives who voted to censure Rashida Tlaib"

Verso Books

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Representatives who voted to censure Rashida Tlaib, you say you object to the slogan, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” Where in the lands between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea do you think Palestinians should not be free?

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Two days to go! Come to Foyles bookshop in London on Thursday evening to hear @KojoKoram and me talk about my new book WHAT IS ANTIRACISM? AND WHY IT MEANS ANTICAPITALISM. More details and tickets:

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My latest article: “Disembowel Enoch Powell.” Fifty years ago, British politician Enoch Powell set the template for a racist neoliberal populism that has reached its apotheosis today.

Disembowel Enoch Powell - Dissent Magazine

Fifty years ago, British politician Enoch Powell set the template for a racist neoliberal populism that has reached its apotheosis today.

www.dissentmagazine.org

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Listened to the BBC's stupid reanimation of Enoch Powell's speech, in which he dignifies racism with the words of Virgil. Then switched over to MSNBC to hear General Mattis praised for knowing Cicero and Thucydides. Like the classics somehow render bombing and racism legitimate?

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My article on how working-class nationalists provide an alibi for deadly immigration and asylum policies that our neoliberal leaders want to pursue anyway. There is no culture war over immigration in the normally understood sense, just a hidden class war.

The hidden class politics of the UK’s immigration debate

Liberals preach cultural tolerance to the working classes while inflicting death-by-policy on migrants

www.opendemocracy.net

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If there's one thing we should have learned about anti-Muslim racism in the last twenty years, it's that defences of "liberalism" have been central to it. In this context, a certain kind of liberalism is not the opposite of racism but its premise.

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Labour has often deliberately misunderstood Boris Johnsons's article on the use of burkas – it wasn't racist, it was a nuanced defence of liberalism. You can read the original article here:

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@Spectraliser @guardian The point is that what worked to make some progress on the personal level in the past won't work any more on either the personal or structural levels, so yes we do need to draw a line and criticize liberal forms of antiracism.

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CVE policies have gone global, from Finland to the Philippines. And all the problems they bring have been globalized with them. In a new report, co-authored with @drbenhayes and published by @TNInstitute , we expose the human rights consequences.

The Globalisation of Countering Violent Extremism Policies | Transnational Institute

The globalisation of Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) policies is the most significant development in counterterrorism policy in the last decade. What began as a rhetorical commitment from a...

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I’m tempted to say: we told you so. Those of us who have written about Islamophobia and the War on Terror over the last 15 years and have warned repeatedly of Aimé Césaire’s lesson: that imperial violence carried out abroad comes home in the form of domestic fascism. 10/11

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In New York next week, I'll be introducing my new book on antiracism, in discussion with @TejNagaraja and Paula Chakravartty. Hosted by NYU's Dept of Social and Cultural Analysis. 6pm, Tues Dec 12 at NYU. More details:

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Looking forward to UK's political elite reflecting on how years of pandering to racism created today's victory for the far Right. Oh wait.

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James Forman's guide to political organizing. Written fifty years ago but still essential activist reading today.

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When Zionists see a literature festival as an act of violence, the word “intifada” as genocidal, and wearing a keffiyeh as a threat to civilization - this is what I call the FRAGILITY OF THE COLONIZER. My latest for @The_NewArab

Israel, US campuses, and the fragility of the coloniser

Amid Israel's genocide in Gaza, silencing Palestinians is crucial to the colonial project that sees any indigenous resistance as a threat, writes Arun Kundnani.

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Yassir Morsi's essential new book shows what Fanon called “Turn white or disappear” thrives in the War on Terror.

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Thread… The US foreign policy establishment is pushing a new set of national security narratives. One narrative is the threat of China, the central focus of this week’s NATO summit. Another is domestic extremism, on which the White House this week published a new strategy. 1/23

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It is a sad day for Asian kids in Britain with Patel, Javed, and Mirza setting such a low bar of achievement. Their parents must be so disappointed.

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People not opposing #MuslimBan on principle but saying it's wrong cos it targets the wrong countries: you don't get the nature of racism.

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The US dropped 22,110 bombs in Iraq and Syria in 2015. And the Pentagon says it has only killed six civilians.

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These days, UK counter-terrorism policy-makers make much of treating far-Right violence as seriously as Islamist. But sometimes, the mask slips...

Dr. Rizwaan Sabir

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Commissioner of Metropolitan Police says out of 3k “subjects of interest” who are monitored by police/Mi5, *all* are “Islamist” & zero are far-right. “The extreme right wing volume isn’t something we’d normally talk about in terms of no. of individuals” |

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@TOAK19054 @ProfessorKumar The demonization of Arabs works alongside the demonization of Muslims. And in any case all racisms legitimize violence beyond the group ostensibly targeted. Anti-Black racism legitimized mass incarceration but around half the people in US prisons are not Black.

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Children will be forced to listen to Freddy Mercury and Andrew Lloyd Webber to integrate them to British values.

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To be an antiracist means supporting the Palestinian struggle against Israeli colonialism and apartheid. I'll be speaking about why this Saturday in New York City at the first conference of the new Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism. Register:

Battling the 'IHRA definition': Theory & Activism Conference - Institute for the Critical Study of...

We are thrilled to announce the first convening of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism in October 2023! This inaugural gathering will bring

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Phone in sick for the rest of March and work through fifty years of the best writing on racism and imperialism.

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Access Race & Class content for FREE for the month of March

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In 1971, Rap Brown accepted Islam while jailed in New York and later became the Imam of a Muslim community in Atlanta. By the 1990s, he was one of the most important leaders of Muslims in the US as the emir of the American Muslim Council.

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New article by me: "There is no culture war over immigration in the normally understood sense. Rather, there is a strange and hidden class war being fought out on the terrains of race and culture. At stake is the very definition of the working class"

The hidden class politics of the UK’s immigration debate

Liberals preach cultural tolerance to the working classes while inflicting death-by-policy on migrants

www.opendemocracy.net

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I would like this, because it cites me and my friends. But it is very good on the roots of England's current imperial nostalgia wankfest.

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"The Last Days of a White World" | | by @steinosteino & @Sisyphusa

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Me on CNN this afternoon trying to take on crazy Trumpers.

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@ArunKundnani

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In the 1990s, surveillance once again intensified against Al Amin. In 2002, he was wrongfully convicted of killing a cop in Atlanta. Like 1000s of other Muslims in the US prosecuted as “extremists” in the years after 9/11, there was little chance of a fair trial.

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Arun Kundnani

@ArunKundnani

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On Saturday Feb 6, I'll be speaking on a panel on "Connecting Abolitionist Struggles: Settler Colonialism, Mass Incarceration, and the War on Terror," in commemoration of the Quebec mosque shooting. Details at:

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Arun Kundnani

@ArunKundnani

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In an extract from my new book "What is Antiraicsm?" published at @theleaduk , I cover the conference that gave birth to “identity politics” and the radicalism of the most important Black leader there, Jamil Al-Amin.

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Arun Kundnani

@ArunKundnani

2 years

Spot on analysis by @KojoKoram in the @nytimes today comparing Liz Truss to Enoch Powell: . Powell was both a racist populist and the first neoliberal politician, as I argued 4 years ago in @DissentMag

Disembowel Enoch Powell - Dissent Magazine

Fifty years ago, British politician Enoch Powell set the template for a racist neoliberal populism that has reached its apotheosis today.

www.dissentmagazine.org

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Arun Kundnani

@ArunKundnani

4 years

"Rather than redefine security in terms of health, we are now likely to see health redefined in terms of security." From an essay I've written for @ROAR_Magazine ...

From Fanon to ventilators: fighting for our right to breathe

To neoliberal states, the pandemic is a racialized security threat and a market opportunity. Our fight is for the right to breathe — in every sense.

roarmag.org

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Arun Kundnani

@ArunKundnani

8 years

"The 'war on terror' was supposed to contain violence, but the whole world is a battlefield now."

The west’s Islamophobia is only helping the Islamic State

The "war on terror" was supposed to contain violence, but the whole world is a battlefield now.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Arun Kundnani

@ArunKundnani

7 months

On genocidal anti-Muslim racism, from my book WHAT IS ANTIRACISM? published in June.

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Arun Kundnani

@ArunKundnani

6 years

Sivanandan was owning Twitter debates on identity politics before most of you were even born.

Ralph Leonard

@buffsoldier_96

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A. Sivanandan wrote "Any struggles of the oppressed, be it blacks or women, which are only for themselves and then not for the least of them, the most deprived, the most exploited of them, are inevitably self-serving and narrow and unable to enlarge the human condition…(1/2)

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Arun Kundnani

@ArunKundnani

7 years

Great to see this history and archive of the anti-racist magazine CARF, which I used to work on.

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Arun Kundnani

@ArunKundnani

6 years

What is Islamophobia? An expression of the violence of empire. What causes it to exist? Short answer: racial capitalism. Hear more in my lecture this Monday lunchtime at the Rutgers Center for Security, Race and Rights.

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Arun Kundnani

@ArunKundnani

1 year

East Midlands people! I'll be speaking about my new book, published by @VersoBooks , at the Surface Gallery, Nottingham, on Monday evening.

Book Launch: What is Anti-racism? And Why it Means Anti-capitalism

Join us in person on June 26th at 5pm for the book launch of "What is Anti-racism? And Why it Means Anti-capitalism" with Arun Kundani

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Arun Kundnani

@ArunKundnani

3 years

Crucial piece by @NishaKapoor07 in @RedPeppermag on the UK's new Nationality and Borders Bill and the use of biometric ID tech to carry out the "granulated" demise of citizenship.

Red Pepper Magazine - Red Pepper

Red Pepper magazine is a quarterly publication and website of left politics and culture. We draw on feminist, green and anti-racist politics.

www.redpepper.org.uk

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Arun Kundnani

@ArunKundnani

6 years

Too often, we on the left imagine racism as external to the neoliberal project. I've learnt a lot from @profdavidharvey , Wendy Brown, Wolfgang Streeck, and @paulmasonnews but I think their accounts of neoliberalism are limited for this reason.

Disembowel Enoch Powell - Dissent Magazine

Fifty years ago, British politician Enoch Powell set the template for a racist neoliberal populism that has reached its apotheosis today.

www.dissentmagazine.org

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Arun Kundnani

@ArunKundnani

4 years

This is happening on Thursday. I'll be talking about my current research on how we can develop an analysis of racial capitalism from South African precursors, Cedric Robinson, and Stuart Hall.

Verso Books

@VersoBooks

4 years

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 4PM Register Below! "What is Racial Capitalism?" with ARUN KUNDNANI @ArunKundnani at UWMadison Wright Center for Social Justice

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Arun Kundnani

@ArunKundnani

2 years

"Mutulu Shakur is dying in prison. He is one of thousands of people – predominantly Black and Brown – who are seriously ill behind bars and asking for release." Essential article on the campaign to free Mutulu Shakur, by the wonderful @snidelines

The Resounding Right of Mutulu Shakur to Die in Freedom

Anyone with a loved one in prison carries around the silent, ceaseless terror that the person so loved will die alone, behind bars. Currently, 71-year-old Mutulu Shakur, a Black man imprisoned 36...

www.counterpunch.org

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Arun Kundnani

@ArunKundnani

6 years

The hypocrisy of James Comey is staggering if unsurprising. Where was his "higher loyalty" when he signed off on torture in 2003? He is "morally unfit" to work at any level of government, let alone be elevated to the status of national conscience.

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Arun Kundnani

@ArunKundnani

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@schanmalik @ProfessorKumar Isn't that a more eloquent version of 2) above? Agree with you that Islamophobia is racism. The question is what drives it? If the answer is: it exists because the US has always been racist, then that does not explain anything specific about anti-Muslim racism.

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Arun Kundnani

@ArunKundnani

7 years

The right-wing attack on @lsarsour shows how they will use Islamophobia to divide us. It won't work if we stand together. #IMarchWithLinda

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Arun Kundnani

@ArunKundnani

6 years

Fuck me. Just come off an eight hour flight to hear that Stuart Hall and Sivanandan are being quoted in the British parliament.

Ash Sarkar

@AyoCaesar

6 years

David Lammy spraying Stuart Hall bars in Parliament??? This is what a new hegemony feels like 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾

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Arun Kundnani

@ArunKundnani

6 months

As me and others have pointed out over the last three months, US campus DEI policies have helped Zionists by making antiracism all about feelings rather than material oppression. Glad this argument is now being made by @EdgeofSports in the @thenation .

How DEI Programs and Liberal Politics Are Failing Gaza

Diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, as they exist in education, are failing, because they emphasize personal feelings over the need to collectively organize.

www.thenation.com

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Arun Kundnani

@ArunKundnani

7 years

On airline Islamophobia - new piece by me and @KhaledBeydoun for @truthout

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Arun Kundnani

@ArunKundnani

6 years

Help end the government's unofficial gag order on Jamil Al-Amin (formerly H. Rap Brown): sign the open letter demanding academics and journalists be allowed to interview him in prison: (You don't have to be an academic or journalist to sign.)

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Arun Kundnani

@ArunKundnani

6 years

The debate on @jeremycorbyn and anti-Semitism is, among other things, about the silencing of the Palestinian voice (that is what the full IHRA definition would do). Months of radio, print, and television news coverage and this, I think, is the first contribution by a Palestinian.

The Guardian

@guardian

6 years

Siding with the Palestinian struggle is not antisemitic | Ahmad Samih Khalidi

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