David Renton, ‘Labour’s Antisemitism crisis: What the Left got wrong and how to learn from it’, Routledge, 2022 – reflection by Philip Mendes, September 2021

Firstly, let me say this is not a conventional book review. It is more so an ongoing critical reflection on what the anti-Zionist Left (i.e. those who reject Israel’s continuing existence as a Jewish state even within the Green Line borders, and instead advocate so-called universalistic solutions which in the current political culture of the…

NTEU wins right to intellectual freedom in Tim Anderson appeal, Green Left, 4 September 2021

A Federal Court decision handed down on August 31 confirmed that University of Sydney staff have a legal right to be protected from disciplinary action when exercising intellectual freedom. The decision resulted from an appeal brought by the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) and Dr Tim Anderson, a former Political Economy academic, against the University of Sydney. Anderson was sacked…