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A New Anti-Semitism

Will Self once wrote that he could no longer identify as a Jew at all. As anti-Semitism once again rises up the political agenda, Will says he's had cause to rethink his position.

Will Self once wrote that he could no longer identify as a Jew at all.

As anti-Semitism once again comes back to the centre stage of British political life, Will says he's had cause to rethink his position.

"Once societies contain a certain proportion of active bigots", he writes, "all rational debate on such matters begins to shut down as everyone reverts - tediously, ineluctably - to type".

Producer: Adele Armstrong.

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Sun 17 Jun 2018 08:48

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  • Fri 15 Jun 2018 20:50
  • Sun 17 Jun 2018 08:48

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