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James Renton

James Renton

James Renton is Professor of History and Co-Lead of the Racial Justice and Migration Research Group, Edge Hill University, UK. A former President of the British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies, Renton is an historian of anti-Semitism , Islamophobia, empire, and global politics. This article is based on his recent research paper in the Journal of Genocide Research, ‘Holocaust Memory and the Universal Sovereignty of the Liberal Democratic State.’

 

Items by James Renton

  • Muslim surveillance: The real story behind the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism

    Muslim surveillance: The real story behind the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism

    In May 2016, an organisation of Western governments headquartered in Berlin, called the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), adopted a definition of anti-Semitism that incorporates anti-Zionism. That definition has become the pre-eminent benchmark for identifying anti-Semitism by governments, public bodies and universities across the global North. Due to its conflation…