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‘The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament: A Short History’ out later this year

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I'm excited to be able to announce that my new book, 'The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament: A Short History', is slated for publication on 14 November. The book covers the campaign in the broadest sense - from the Direct Action Committee that existed before CND was set up in 1958 to the Committee of 100… Continue reading ‘The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament: A Short History’ out later this year

Racism/Brexit book now open access

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My book Political Racism: Brexit and Its Aftermath, which provides the fullest available analysis of the role of racist anti-immigration politics, and other forms of racism, in the 2016 referendum, the Brexit crisis of 2016-19 and the Johnson government, is now open access. It provides a distinctive analysis, important correctives to myths which have been… Continue reading Racism/Brexit book now open access

Emerging consensus among genocide scholars on Israel’s brutal war

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In 2010, I wrote Palestine in an International Historical Perspective on Genocide, a pioneering argument for the relevance of 'genocide' to Israel-Palestine. Later that year, in a debate in the Journal of Genocide Research prompted by my article, the Holocaust historian Omer Bartov strongly disagreed. It is therefore particularly striking that Omer has spoken out… Continue reading Emerging consensus among genocide scholars on Israel’s brutal war