Brendan McGeever
@brendanmcgeever.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism
Author: 'Antisemitism & the Russian Revolution' (CUP 2019) and 'Britain in Fragments' with Satnam Virdee (MUP 2023)
2024-25 Cornell Visiting Professor, Swarthmore College
Author: 'Antisemitism & the Russian Revolution' (CUP 2019) and 'Britain in Fragments' with Satnam Virdee (MUP 2023)
2024-25 Cornell Visiting Professor, Swarthmore College
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Looking forward to welcoming colleagues to Ottawa next week for our international workshop on conspiracy theories as a threat to democracy. Part of Media Literacy Week @mediasmarts.bsky.social
www.carleton.ca/populistpublics/events
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Events - Populist Publics
Hate, Conspiracy Theories, and the Challenge to Democracy (Closed Workshop) Dates: October 28-30, 2025 Through the generous support of a SSHRC Connection
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October 24, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Looking forward to welcoming colleagues to Ottawa next week for our international workshop on conspiracy theories as a threat to democracy. Part of Media Literacy Week @mediasmarts.bsky.social
www.carleton.ca/populistpublics/events
www.carleton.ca/populistpublics/events
New article for @prospectmagazine.co.uk with my colleagues David Feldman (@dmf101.bsky.social) and Ben Gidley (@bengidley.bsky.social) in which we critically examine mainstream political responses to the attack on the Heaton Park synagogue in Manchester earlier this month.
The difficult truth about antisemitism
Why don’t we acknowledge that there are different ways of measuring the prevalence of anti-Jewish prejudice?
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 8:55 AM
New article for @prospectmagazine.co.uk with my colleagues David Feldman (@dmf101.bsky.social) and Ben Gidley (@bengidley.bsky.social) in which we critically examine mainstream political responses to the attack on the Heaton Park synagogue in Manchester earlier this month.
Reposted by Brendan McGeever
New article with @bisa-bkk.bsky.social colleagues @dmf101.bsky.social and @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social:
More Jewish people in Britain are concerned by general racism than the number who are worried by antisemitism. This is a building block for anti-racist politics, write three Birkbeck experts. @bisa-bkk.bsky.social
The difficult truth about antisemitism
Why don’t we acknowledge that there are different ways of measuring the prevalence of anti-Jewish prejudice?
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
October 21, 2025 at 10:27 AM
New article with @bisa-bkk.bsky.social colleagues @dmf101.bsky.social and @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social:
Reposted by Brendan McGeever
More Jewish people in Britain are concerned by general racism than the number who are worried by antisemitism. This is a building block for anti-racist politics, write three Birkbeck experts. @bisa-bkk.bsky.social
The difficult truth about antisemitism
Why don’t we acknowledge that there are different ways of measuring the prevalence of anti-Jewish prejudice?
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
October 21, 2025 at 9:35 AM
More Jewish people in Britain are concerned by general racism than the number who are worried by antisemitism. This is a building block for anti-racist politics, write three Birkbeck experts. @bisa-bkk.bsky.social
Reposted by Brendan McGeever
Antisemitism: how to measure it, how to confront it. Read BISA’s David Feldman @dmf101.bsky.social, @bengidley.bsky.social and @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social in www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/religi...
The difficult truth about antisemitism
Why don’t we acknowledge that there are different ways of measuring the prevalence of anti-Jewish prejudice?
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
October 21, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Antisemitism: how to measure it, how to confront it. Read BISA’s David Feldman @dmf101.bsky.social, @bengidley.bsky.social and @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social in www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/religi...
Reposted by Brendan McGeever
Really interesting and valuable article vashtimedia.com/against-poli...
Against political purity: A reply to Eli Machover
The authors of Facing antisemitism argue for embracing the shifting ground of the Jewish community.
vashtimedia.com
July 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Really interesting and valuable article vashtimedia.com/against-poli...
Reposted by Brendan McGeever
“We are in a historical moment in which key parts of the Jewish community are shifting: a moment in which the possibility of a politics of horizontal solidarity can be glimpsed.”
Brilliant Left meditation on fighting antisemitism in Britain
vashtimedia.com/against-poli...
Brilliant Left meditation on fighting antisemitism in Britain
vashtimedia.com/against-poli...
Against political purity: A reply to Eli Machover
The authors of Facing antisemitism argue for embracing the shifting ground of the Jewish community.
vashtimedia.com
July 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM
“We are in a historical moment in which key parts of the Jewish community are shifting: a moment in which the possibility of a politics of horizontal solidarity can be glimpsed.”
Brilliant Left meditation on fighting antisemitism in Britain
vashtimedia.com/against-poli...
Brilliant Left meditation on fighting antisemitism in Britain
vashtimedia.com/against-poli...
“We are in a historical moment in which key parts of the Jewish community are shifting: a moment in which the possibility of a politics of horizontal solidarity can be glimpsed..." (1/2)
July 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
“We are in a historical moment in which key parts of the Jewish community are shifting: a moment in which the possibility of a politics of horizontal solidarity can be glimpsed..." (1/2)
Some reflections on the politics of 'anti-antisemitism' in Britain. An interview with David Feldman, Ben Gidley and me for @vashtimedia.bsky.social. vashtimedia.com/state-of-ant...
The state of anti-antisemitism
An interview with the authors of a new Runnymede Trust report.
vashtimedia.com
May 27, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Some reflections on the politics of 'anti-antisemitism' in Britain. An interview with David Feldman, Ben Gidley and me for @vashtimedia.bsky.social. vashtimedia.com/state-of-ant...
Reposted by Brendan McGeever
The state of anti-antisemitism
An interview with @dmf101.bsky.social, @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social and me in @vashtimedia.bsky.social about our recent report on antisemitism for @runnymedetrust.bsky.social
vashtimedia.com/state-of-ant...
An interview with @dmf101.bsky.social, @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social and me in @vashtimedia.bsky.social about our recent report on antisemitism for @runnymedetrust.bsky.social
vashtimedia.com/state-of-ant...
The state of anti-antisemitism
An interview with the authors of a new Runnymede Trust report.
vashtimedia.com
May 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The state of anti-antisemitism
An interview with @dmf101.bsky.social, @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social and me in @vashtimedia.bsky.social about our recent report on antisemitism for @runnymedetrust.bsky.social
vashtimedia.com/state-of-ant...
An interview with @dmf101.bsky.social, @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social and me in @vashtimedia.bsky.social about our recent report on antisemitism for @runnymedetrust.bsky.social
vashtimedia.com/state-of-ant...
Reposted by Brendan McGeever
Important new report on antisemtism in the UK and how to counter it.
'Facing antisemitism: the struggle for safety and solidarity'
By David Feldman, Ben Gidley, Brendan McGeever
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@bengidley.bsky.social
'Facing antisemitism: the struggle for safety and solidarity'
By David Feldman, Ben Gidley, Brendan McGeever
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@bengidley.bsky.social
January 30, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Important new report on antisemtism in the UK and how to counter it.
'Facing antisemitism: the struggle for safety and solidarity'
By David Feldman, Ben Gidley, Brendan McGeever
cdn.prod.website-files.com/61488f992b58...
@bengidley.bsky.social
'Facing antisemitism: the struggle for safety and solidarity'
By David Feldman, Ben Gidley, Brendan McGeever
cdn.prod.website-files.com/61488f992b58...
@bengidley.bsky.social
Our new report on antisemitism has just been published. Co-written with David Feldman (@dmf101.bsky.social) and Ben Gidley (@bengidley.bsky.social), we argue current responses to tackling antisemitism are not working and are detrimental to anti-racist politics. ow.ly/LEp550UFjVP. 1/8
Facing antisemitism: the struggle for safety and solidarity
Antisemitism is hardwired into UK society, but current methods of tackling it are not working
ow.ly
January 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Our new report on antisemitism has just been published. Co-written with David Feldman (@dmf101.bsky.social) and Ben Gidley (@bengidley.bsky.social), we argue current responses to tackling antisemitism are not working and are detrimental to anti-racist politics. ow.ly/LEp550UFjVP. 1/8
First post here. The violence in Amsterdam has been widely described as a ‘pogrom’. This is misleading and politically dangerous. It also does a disservice to Jewish history. My piece for @bylinetimes.bsky.social www.bylinesupplement.com/p/was-the-vi...
Was The Violence in Amsterdam an Anti-Jewish Pogrom?
Dr Brendan McGeever from the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism says the careless use of the word 'pogrom' does a disservice to Jewish history.
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November 14, 2024 at 11:08 PM
First post here. The violence in Amsterdam has been widely described as a ‘pogrom’. This is misleading and politically dangerous. It also does a disservice to Jewish history. My piece for @bylinetimes.bsky.social www.bylinesupplement.com/p/was-the-vi...