What is it like to be Jewish or Muslim in the UK?

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Islamophobia and antisemitism are unfortunately no longer fringe. Increasingly open, increasingly violent, they are reshaping what it means to be Muslim or Jewish in Britain today. And yet these hatreds are rarely examined directly. Instead, they are instrumentalised, folded into debates about immigration, national security, public order, and foreign policy, in ways that often do not represent the actual communities. Host Zoe Williams is joined by Shaista Aziz from the Three Hijabis and Stop Trump Coalition, and Em Hilton, a Jewish organiser and writer based in London, and co-founder of Na’amod: UK Jews against Israeli occupation and apartheid. In this episode: • How these prejudices have evolved in their distinctly 21st-century forms • The essentialisation of identity and denial of plurality • The experience of being a British Muslim and a British Jew today • The ramifications of the Balfour declaration • Who gets to speak for a community, and how these communities are often used as shields for other issues Featured Organisation: CADFA (Camden Abu Dis Friendship Association) Website: https://www.cadfa.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/camdenabudis Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/c.a.d.f.a Twitter/X: https://x.com/camdenabudis Resources we discussed The Othered Woman: How White Feminism Harms Muslim Women (Shahed Ezaydi) https://www.plutobooks.com/product/the-othered-woman/ Islamophobia and Securitization: Religion, Ethnicity and the Female Voice (Tania Saeed) https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-32680-1 Huey P. Newton archive https://www.marxists.org/archive/newton/index.htm Facing antisemitism: the struggle for safety and solidarity (Runnymede Trust) https://www.runnymedetrust.org/publications/facing-antisemitism-the-struggle-for-safety-and-solidarity Islamophobia: A Challenge For Us All (Runnymede Trust) https://www.runnymedetrust.org/publications/islamophobia-a-challenge-for-us-all The Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil (Philip Zimbardo) https://uk.bookshop.org/p/