Brian Klug

Brian Klug

Brian Klug (* in London ) has been a Senior Research Fellow and Philosophy Teacher ( BA / MA ) at St. Benet's Hall and a member of the Philosophy Faculty at the University of Oxford since 2000 . He is also an Honorary Fellow of the Parkes Institute for Research into Jewish Gentile Connections at the University of Southampton and Saint Xavier University in Chicago .

He is co-editor of Patterns of Prejudice , a magazine that investigates social exclusion and stigma. He is a founding member of the Jewish Forum for Justice and Human Rights, a UK- based group dealing with racism and anti-Semitism and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on immigration and the treatment of asylum seekers .

Klug is one of a number of academics who serve on the British, non-partisan parliamentary committee of inquiry . In his 2004 essay , with his publication "The Myth of the New Anti-Semitism" in The Nation magazine , he described New Anti-Semitism as confused.

In February 2007, he was one of the signatories of a statement by the Independent Jewish Voices , a new Jewish group that includes around 150 prominent Jews and Nobel Prize winners in the UK. In the statement, they criticized The Board of Deputies of British Jews for their unconditional and uncritical support for Israel .

Brian Klug is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Islamophobia Research Yearbook .

Publications

• Being Jewish and Doing Justice: Bringing Argument to Life , London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2011.
• Offence: The Jewish Case , London: Seagull Books, 2009.
• A Time to Speak Out: Independent Jewish Voices on Israel, Zionism and Jewish Identity , London: Verso, 2008.
• Children as Equals: Exploring the Rights of the Child , Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2002.
• Ethics, Value and Reality: Selected Papers of Aurel Kolnai , London: Athlone Press, 1977.
• A Question of Degree : Assorted Papers on Assessment , London: Nuffield Foundation, 1976.
• "Ritual murmur : the undercurrent of protest against religious slaughter of animals in Britain in the 1980s," Patterns of Prejudice , Issue 23, page 2, 1989.
• "The language of race" , Patterns of Prejudice , Issue 33, page 3, 1999.
• "The collective Jew : Israel and the new antisemitism," Patterns of Prejudice , vol. 37, no. 2, 2003, used as a resource by the EUMC in their report Manifestations of Antisemitism in the EU 2002–2003 , Vienna, March 2004. Pages 12–13, 225–241.
• "The myth of the new anti-semitism" . The Nation , issue January 15, 2004; Issue 2 February 2004.
• "Joffe's flight of fantasy" , Foreign Policy , March / April of 2005.
• Israel, Antisemitism and the left , Red Pepper , November 24, 2005.
• "The other Balfour : recalling the 1905 Aliens Act" in SW Massil (author), The Jewish Year Book , London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2005.
• Wistrich, Robert S. "Correspondence between Prof. Robert Wistrich and Brian Klug: When Is Opposition to Israel and Its Policies Anti-Semitic? " , International Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Retrieved September 8, 2006.
• "In search of clarity" , Catalyst , March 17 of 2006.
• "A contradiction in 'the new Europe" in M. Bunzl, Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia: Hatreds Old and New in Europe, Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, 2007.
• "The state of Zionism" , The Nation , June 18 of 2007.
• "The view of Israel as the world's Jew" in Bunzl and Senfft (author), Between Antisemitism and Islamophobia, Hamburg: VSA-Verlag, 2008.
• "Tricks of memory: Auschwitz and the question of Palestinian terrorism" in Stephen Law (author), Israel, Palestine and Terror, London, 2008.
• "A plea for distinctions: disentangling anti-Americanism and anti-semitism" , Think (Journal of the Royal Institute of Philosophy), 2008.
• "A people apart?" , The Jewish Quarterly Review , 2011.

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Report of the All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry into Anti-Semitism" . Retrieved May 14, 2020, September 2006, p.58.
2. ^ Klug, Brian, The Myth of the New Anti-Semitism , The Nation , February 2, 2004, accessed September 7, 2006.