Dicussion with Rachel Shabi about her book, "Off White: The Truth About Anti-Semitism"

Caabu invites you to an online discussion with Rachel Shabi about her book, "Off White: The Truth About Anti-Semitism" on Thursday 27 March 2025 at 1pm (GMT UK time).

Join us for this important briefing with Rachel Shabi, as she delves into the many faces of of contemporary antisemitism in conversation with Emily Hilton, from Diaspora Alliance and Na'amod UK.

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When: Thursday 27 March 2025, 13:00 (GMT, UK time).

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About the book:

As claims of antisemitism continue to distort our politics at home and abroad, it has become impossible to talk about constructively, even in private. Instead, we find ourselves in a storm of misinformation, political mudslinging and bad faith accusations. 

There is, however, a way to deliberate honestly. Looking beyond our polarising headlines and interrogating the reasons racism takes hold, OFF-WHITE offers urgent analysis of one of the most divisive issues of our time. 

Exploring the contingency of whiteness, Judeo-Christian mythmaking, pro-Israel antisemitism, and the Palestinian struggle against colonialism, Rachel lights a way forward for progressive politics. 

At a time of heightened sensitivity and amidst a global surge in antisemitism and the rise of far-right parties across Europe, our understanding of this issue is all the more urgent and necessary. OFF-WHITE provides an essential, humane investigation into the many faces of contemporary antisemitism, demonstrating how the quagmire of confusion is often entirely by design and how we might build a better way forward.

About the speakers:

Rachel Shabi is an award-winning journalist and broadcaster, who has reported extensively on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the wider Middle East, from the war between Lebanon and Israel in 2006, the Gaza war of 2008 and the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia. Now London-based and covering current affairs, Shabi's work appears in the Guardian, The New York Times, The London Times, The Independent, Al Jazeera English, The New York Review of Books, The London Review of Books, Prospect and The Nation. Her previous book, Not the Enemy: Israel’s Jews from Arab Lands, received a US National Jewish Book award.

She Tweets: @rachshabi

Emily Hilton is the International Policy Director of Diaspora Alliance and a co-founder of Na’amod UK.

She Tweets: @emtravelodge

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