Avi Shlaim
Avi Shlaim is an emeritus professor of international relations at Oxford University and the author of The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World.
Items by Avi Shlaim
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- December 6, 2021 Avi Shlaim
Hamas terror listing is yet another UK betrayal of the Palestinians
British Home Secretary Priti Patel has declared her intention to proscribe the whole of Hamas – the Islamic resistance movement that rules the Gaza Strip – as a terrorist organisation. The military wing of the group was proscribed in the UK back in March 2001. Twenty years on, the home secretary proposes to extend this ban to...
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- January 17, 2017 Avi Shlaim
Anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism in British politics
There is no denying that from time to time anti-Semitism raises its ugly head in the UK, as it does in many other countries. What is striking, however, about contemporary Britain is the use of anti-Semitism as a political tool to silence legitimate criticism of the policies and practices of...