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Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism Cosmopolitan Reflections
Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism Cosmopolitan Reflections David Hirsh Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, London SE14 6NW, UK The Working Papers Series is intended to initiate discussion, debate and discourse on a wide variety of issues as it pertains to the analysis of antisemitism, and to further the study of this subject matter. Please feel free to submit papers to the ISGAP working paper series. Contact the ISGAP Coordinator or the Editor of the Working Paper Series, Charles Asher Small. Working Paper Hirsh 2007 ISSN: 1940-610X © Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy ISGAP 165 East 56th Street, Second floor New York, NY 10022 United States Office Telephone: 212-230-1840 www.isgap.org ABSTRACT This paper aims to disentangle the difficult relationship between anti-Zionism and antisemitism. On one side, antisemitism appears as a pressing contemporary problem, intimately connected to an intensification of hostility to Israel. Opposing accounts downplay the fact of antisemitism and tend to treat the charge as an instrumental attempt to de-legitimize criticism of Israel. I address the central relationship both conceptually and through a number of empirical case studies which lie in the disputed territory between criticism and demonization. The paper focuses on current debates in the British public sphere and in particular on the campaign to boycott Israeli academia. Sociologically the paper seeks to develop a cosmopolitan framework to confront the methodological nationalism of both Zionism and anti-Zionism. It does not assume that exaggerated hostility to Israel is caused by underlying antisemitism but it explores the possibility that antisemitism may be an effect even of some antiracist forms of anti- Zionism. -
Key Question 10 How Does Thomas Clarkson Deserve to Be Remembered?
Thomas Clarkson And The Abolition of Slavery Background Information Section 1 from the Teacher’s Resource Pack for KS1-4 Written by Maureen James B. Ed. (Hons) M.A. For Wisbech & Fenland Museum CONTENTS 1. Why did a need develop for the transatlantic slave trade? Page 1.1 What impact did European settlement have on the West Indies? 3 1.2 Why did Africans become the labour force? 3 1.3 Why did it become known as the triangular trade? 4 About the West Indies 4 2. How was slavery organised in the British West Indies? 2.1 Were all the enslaved Africans taken to the West Indies? 5 2.2 How were the enslaved Africans sold when they reached the West Indies? 5 2.3 What was life like for slaves on the plantations? 6 2.4 Can we prove that slaves were treated badly? 7 About Jamaica 8 3. How “free” were the people of West Africa before the growth of the transatlantic slave trade? About West Africa 9 3.1 Was there slavery in West Africa before the transatlantic trade? 9 3.2 How and why did Africans become enslaved? 10 3.3 What happened to the Africans after they had been captured? 11 About the Efik traders of Old Calabar 12 3.4 How did the traders pay for the enslaved Africans? 12 3.5 Did the African slave traders become 'westernized'? 12 About Cowrie Shells 14 4. Were the crews on the slave ships treated as badly as the captives before abolition? 4.1 What were conditions like for the enslaved Africans on the ships? 15 4.2 How did the enslaved Africans react to being on board the slave ships? 16 4.3 What were conditions like for the crews of the slave ships? 17 5. -
1 Rebels As Local Leaders?
Rebels as local leaders? The Mayoralties of Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson Compared Ben Worthy Mark Bennister The Mayoralty of London offers a powerful electoral platform but weak powers to lead a city regarded as ‘ungovernable’ (Travers 2004). This paper adapts the criteria of Hambleton and Sweeting (2004) to look at the first two Mayors’ mandate and vision, style of leadership and policies. Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson were both party rebels, mavericks and skilled media operators. However, their differences are key. As mayor, Livingstone had a powerful vision that translated into a set of clear policy aims while Johnson had a weaker more cautious approach shaped by his desire for higher office. Livingstone built coalitions but proved divisive whereas Johnson was remarkably popular. While Livingstone bought experience and skill, Johnson delegated detail to others. Both their mayoralties courted controversy and faced charges of corruption and cronyism. Both mayors used publicity to make up for weak powers. They also found themselves pushed by their powers towards transport and planning while struggling with deeper issues such as housing. In policy terms Livingstone pushed ahead with the radical congestion charge and a series of symbolic policies. Johnson was far more modest, championing cycling and revelling in the 2012 Olympics while avoiding difficult decisions. The two mayors used their office to negotiate but also challenge central government. Livingstone’s Mayoralty was a platform for personalised change-Johnson’s one for personal ambition. Directly Elected Mayors were introduced to provide local leadership, accountability and vision to UK local government. Beginning under New Labour and continued under the Coalition and Conservatives, directly elected mayors were offered initially by referendum, and later imposed, up and down the country beginning with London 2000 and then in 16 cities and towns including Bristol and Liverpool. -
Mayor's Report to the Assembly
Mayor’s Report to the Assembly, 15th November 2006 Background Document – List of Decisions recorded between 5th October 2006 to 1st November 2006 Ref Decision Date Approved by Policy Director/ Financial Implications Comments Mayoral Adviser MA 2773 Approved the Air Quality Progress 30/10/06 Ken Livingstone MMB There are no direct costs to Report and its publication on the the GLA arising from this GLA website. decision. MA 2783 Agreed: 12/10/06 Ken Livingstone Anni Marjoram The estimated gross cost of this conference is £170,455 1. The seventh Capitalwoman and the net cost to the GLA conference and supporting is £50,000. The balance of conference publications on 3 £120,455 will be met from March 2007. grant income from the LDA (£60,000) and sponsorship 2. To waive the GLA’s contracts income (£60,455). code of practice to enable the conference to be held at the QEII The GLA’s net cost of Conference Centre and Central £50,000 will be met from Hall Westminster. the 2006/07 Stakeholders Programme budget. MA 2798 Approved: 05/10/06 Ken Livingstone Redmond O’Neill The gross and net cost of the additional work required 1. An amendment to the contract for this contract to the GLA approved in MA1832 for a is £5,000 and will be met by consultant to provide services in a virement from the Moscow to the International 2006/07 Strategic Projects Affairs Team to pay for & Policy Evaluation additional services to be Programme budget to the provided, with immediate effect. 2006/07 International & European Relations 2. -
Prof. Tony Martin Dis-Invite by Ken Livingstone & Lee Jasper
Prof. Tony Martin Dis-Invited to UK! Page 1 of 7 Dr. Tony Martin to Speak in London Just In: Report From the London Conference Prof. Tony Martin Dis- Invited to UK! Mayor's Uncle Tom Lee Jasper Does Dirty Work -- UK Blacks Protest --Ask Other Invitees Not to Attend British Blacks are outraged over the dis-invitation of the highly renowned Marcus Garvey scholar Dr. Tony Martin to a Black History Month event scheduled for October 25th in London. The event, an annual opportunity for Blacks to hear lectures from the world's top Black scholars, is arranged through the mayor's office which funds and promotes the event through its yassir-boss-negro Lee Jasper. When London Mayor Ken Livingstone was informed of Dr. Martin's uncompromising analysis of the Black/Jewish relationship (see Martin's landmark book, The Jewish Onslaught), Jasper was ordered to "dis-invite" Martin-- an order which Jasper promptly and dutifully carried out. London's Blacks, outraged by Jasper's unreserved submission, appealed to other invitees to refuse their invitations unless Martin's invitation is restored. [editor's note: Uncle Tomism has plagued the Black man for centuries. The Black Anglo-Saxon, Lee Jasper, is not the first one to buck and shimmy on behalf of Jews. Read the Open Letter to the Uncle Toms from the African United Front.] Below is an exchange of correspondence between Lee Jasper and Dr. Tony Martin, along with the international community's expressions of outrage. Dr. Martin's Response to Lee Jasper Lee Jasper's Dis-Invitation Lee Jasper's 2nd letter to Prof. -
Boris Johnson Making London’S Mayor More Accountable
Making London’s Mayor Accountable Boris Johnson Making London’s Mayor More Accountable I believe Londoners should have a greater say on how their city is run, more information on how decisions are made and details on how City Hall money is spent. Ken Livingstone presides over a budget of more than £10billion and demands £311 per year from the average taxpaying household in London. Yet Londoners have little confidence in the Mayor spending their money with care and prudence. Mayor Livingstone’s extravagant spending on publicity, his jaunts to Cuba and Venezuela at taxpayers’ expense, and the recent reports of his close advisers using their influence to manipulate the expenditure of public money have all confirmed that Ken Livingstone’s Mayoralty is unaccountable and disdainful of scrutiny. If elected, I will aim to create a different style of government at City Hall by introducing a series of measures designed to make my Mayoralty more accountable, and spending more transparent. The first of these will be the reform of People’s Question Times, open public forums where ordinary residents are able to question the Mayor and London Assembly members. Under my plans, not only will we hold these events more frequently, but we will establish question sessions that focus on myself and perhaps my Deputy too, giving Londoners the chance to question their Mayor more directly. By exercising the Mayor’s right to chair the Metropolitan Police Authority, I will take direct responsibility for tackling crime, and will be fully accountable for police performance. Local Borough Commanders will be required to hold monthly open public meetings so that local people can regularly hold their police to account. -
Mayor's Report to the Assembly, \(Date of Meeting\)
APPENDIX A Mayor’s Report to the Assembly, 17th May 2006 Background Document – List of Decisions recorded between 9th March 2006 to 19 April 2006 Ref Decision Date Approved by Policy Director/ Financial Implications Comments Mayoral Adviser MA 2287 Agreed: 07/03/06 Ken Livingstone N/A The total contract value over three years to the GLA 1. To extend retrospectively the is £282,000 (£94,000 per existing Porterage contract from annum). the 1st November 2005 until 28th February 2006 to allow for the The Porterage service at tender period over the holiday City Hall is provided by a season. mixture of in-house staff and contracted services. 2. To appoint the successful The cost of the contracted tenderer OCS to supply services are contained Porterage services for a period of within the staffing budget three years commencing 1st for the approved staffing March 2006, with an option to establishment of 69 FTE for extend for a further two years. Facilities Management staff The value of the contract over providing porterage, three years will be £282,000. security and call centre services. Given the demands on the Security and Porterage services at City Hall it has not proved possible to contain staffing and contracted services costs APPENDIX A within the approved staffing budget which assumes the ability to maintain a 4.5% vacancy allowance based on natural turnover and makes no allowance for the level of overtime, which has proved necessary. In recognition of the pressures on the porterage service a growth bid of £85,000 was submitted and approved for the 2006/07 budget to help meet costs of this new contract. -
A Mayor and Assembly for London. Report
A Mayor and Assembly for London: 10 years on Report of Conference at LSE 2 nd July 2010 Opening remarks of Chairman, Emeritus Professor George Jones, Chairman of the Greater London Group [GLG] This conference follows one of May 2007 held at City Hall, which had looked at the performance and demise of the Greater London Council [GLC]. Notable speakers at that event were the then Mayor, Ken Livingstone, and Lord (Desmond) Plummer, a former Conservative Leader of the GLC, who had since died. That earlier event was timed to mark the 40-year anniversary of the date when Plummer had become leader. Earlier this year L.J. [Jim] Sharpe died. He had been a research officer with the GLG in the early 1960s and had helped prepare evidence leading to the establishment of the GLC. He went on to write two pioneering GLG papers about the 1961 London County Council (LCC) Elections called A Metropolis Votes (1962) and about Research in Local Government (1965) . He remained a frequent visitor to the Group and writer about London government. I would like to dedicate this conference to Jim’s memory. The Group also lost a few days ago William Plowden who sat with me at GLG Monday afternoon meetings under the chairmanship of William Robson when I first joined the Group in 1966. Today’s conference is timely since the vesting day of the Greater London Authority [GLA], when it came into being, is ten years ago tomorrow. The objective of the conference is to assess the performance of the Mayor and Assembly that make up the GLA, looking at why and how it came into being, its achievements and disappointments. -
Conservation Area Appraisal March 2016 Project Ref: 15-1129
Wisbech Conservation Area Appraisal March 2016 Project Ref: 15-1129 Date: 11 March 2016 Beacon Planning Ltd 8 Quy Court, Prepared: E James Heritage Consultant Colliers Lane Stow-cum-Quy S Hetherington CAMBRIDGE Graduate Heritage Consultant CB25 9AU T 01223 810990 Checked: J Burton www.beaconplanning.co.uk Senior Consultant © Beacon Planning Ltd 2016 This document has been prepared in accordance with the scope of Beacon Planning Limited’s appointment with its client and is subject to the terms of that appointment. It is addressed to and for the sole and confidential use and reliance of Beacon Planning Limited’s client. Beacon Planning Limited accepts no liability for any use of this document other than by its client and only for the purposes for which it was prepared and provided. No person other than the client may copy (in whole or in part) use or rely on the contents of this document, without the prior written permission of the Company Secretary of Beacon Planning Limited. Any advice, opinions, or recommendations within this document should be read and relied upon only in the context of the document as a whole. CONTENTS 1.0 Introduction 2.0 Planning Policy Framework, Legislation and Guidance 3.0 Summary of Special Interest 4.0 Assessing Special Interest 5.0 Issues and Boundary Considerations 6.0 Community Feedback References Appendices 1. Development Framework and Planning Policies 2. Conservation Area Maps 3. List of Statutory and Local Designations Wisbech Conservation Area Appraisal V. Issued 11 March 2016 7a ML 5.2m 8 1b Wisbech -
The Mayoralties of Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Birkbeck Institutional Research Online Rebels Leading London: The Mayoralties of Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson Compared This article compares the mayoralties of the first two directly elected Mayors of London, Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson. The position offers a commanding electoral platform, but weak powers to lead a city regarded as ‘ungovernable’ (Travers 2004).The two mayors had some obvious points of comparison: both were party rebels, mavericks and skilled media operators. Both also used publicity to make up for weak powers, but courted controversy and faced charges of corruption and cronyism. Utilising Hambleton and Sweeting (2004), this article compares their mayoralties in terms of vision, leadership style and policies. Livingstone had a powerful vision that translated into clear policy aims while Johnson was more cautious, shaped by a desire for higher office. In terms of style, Livingstone built coalitions but proved divisive whereas Johnson retained remarkable levels of popularity. Where Livingstone bought experience and skill, Johnson delegated. In policy terms, the two mayors found themselves pushed by their institutional powers towards transport and planning while struggling with deeper issues such as housing. Livingstone introduced the radical congestion charge and a series of symbolic policies. Johnson was far more modest – championing cycling, the 2012 Olympics and avoiding difficult decisions. The two used their office to negotiate, but also challenge, central government. Livingstone’s rebel mayoralty was a platform for personalised change, Johnson’s one for personal ambition. Keywords: Mayors, political leadership, London, comparative, Boris Johnson, Ken Livingstone 1 Directly-elected mayors were introduced to bring new leadership, accountability and vision to English local government. -
Interview with Ken Livingstone
16 November 1981 Marxism Today County Hall, London: home of the Greater London Council Interview with Ken Livingstone Interviewed by Jeff Rodrigues the local authorities' senior officers and with establishing a superior and Ken Livingstone was born in 1945 and went to Tulse Hill Compre- decisive role for the elected representatives. hensive school in Brixton. He worked for eight years as a medical Do you share this concern? technician at a research institute and subsequently did a three year course at the Phillippa Fawcett teacher training college. I think it's a mistake to make a comparison between Lambeth and He became a Lambeth councillor in 1971 and served for seven the GLC. The big additional resource which we have, and they years. In 1978 he became a councillor for the London Borough of don't, is that we've got sixteen members who are virtually full time Camden. But in 1973 he also became a GLC councillor and he has here, and who operate in much the same way as an executive body carried that job on a full time basis ever since. itself, whereas in Lambeth there are only really three members who Following the Labour victory at the GLC elections in May 1981, are full time. We have overlaid the officer structure with our own he became Leader of the Labour Group. member level structure. Also, the Labour Group meets every week, He joined the Labour Party in 1968. He has been a member of unlike Lambeth's six week cycle, and every decision as it arises goes ASTMS and NUT and is currently in the Transport and General through the Group. -
The Mayor's Climate Change Action Plan
Greater London Authority February 2007 Published by Greater London Authority City Hall The Queen’s Walk London SE1 2AA Enquiries 020 7983 4100 Minicom 020 7983 4458 www.london.gov.uk ISBN 978 1 85261 997 8 Copies of the main report and further copies of this document are available from www.london.gov.uk or by calling 020 7983 4100. Further information is available from http://www.london.gov.uk/londonissues/environment.jsp This document is printed on Revive Silk - 100 per cent de-inked post consumer waste paper. Foreword by Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London It is almost impossible to exaggerate the danger of climate change. I have no doubt that it is the single biggest threat to the future development of human civilisation. When scientists talk of the threat of catastrophic climate change they don’t just mean the inconvenience of extra flooding or the Tube being unbearably hot in summer. If no action is taken to cut carbon emissions we face temperature rises of over five degrees towards the end of this century. It took a temperature drop of just five degrees to cause the last ice-age, so the impact of a temperature increase of the same level would be profound. The map of the world would be changed beyond recognition as sea levels rise, and hundreds of millions of people would be displaced by drought, starvation and the increased ferocity of extreme weather events. © Liane Harris Collectively, we have been complacent about global warming for far too long. It is 10 years since the Kyoto Protocol was signed and still global carbon emissions continue to rise.