The UK's pogroms and resurgent Islamophobia w/ Nesrine Malik
Added 2024-08-18 05:00:04 +0000 UTCOn July 30th, a week of Islamophobic and racist violence broke out in England and Northern Ireland, following a mass stabbing even in the seaside town of Southport in which three children were murdered. The subsequent racist attacks were fuelled by misinformation, spread by far-right groups, that the perpetrator was a Muslim and an asylum seeker.
In today's episode Nesrine Malik joined PTO to talk about how best to characterise the week of violence and intimidation, and the degree of culpability of Britain's main political parties in fostering racism and Islamophobia. We also talked about the network of new right wing media organisations, think tanks and influencers and how they synergise with the old and established conservative press.
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Christopher Haworth
2024-09-07 16:56:18 +0000 UTCThanks 👍🏻
cheapjack
2024-08-20 10:42:00 +0000 UTCEarly on you asked how we should characterise thd events that came after Southport. NM didn't mention 'pogrom' and it wasn't a term that came up in the interview. So I was puzzled by the headline on this (excellent) episode.
Peter Gartside
2024-08-20 08:16:11 +0000 UTCThis is the piece: An anatomy of the British war on woke. Was in the October 2023 issue of Race & Class, the IRR's journal: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03063968231164905
Liam Shrivastava
2024-08-20 08:06:21 +0000 UTCHere's one that is open access https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/03063968231164905 .perhaps it's the one mentioned.
Rosie Meade
2024-08-20 07:40:04 +0000 UTCThanks for this. What was the anti woke network paper btw ?
cheapjack
2024-08-19 18:23:14 +0000 UTCThank you Nesrine and Alex. This is an excellent discussion. Best wishes Rosie
Rosie Meade
2024-08-18 16:29:37 +0000 UTC
