Brian Klug Quotes

Brian Klug is senior research fellow and tutor in philosophy at St. Benet's Hall, Oxford and a member of the philosophy faculty at Oxford University. He is also an honorary fellow of the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations, University of Southampton and fellow of the College, Saint Xavier University, Chicago.

He is associate editor of Patterns of Prejudice, a peer-reviewed journal examining social exclusion and stigmatization, and a founder member of the Jewish Forum for Justice and Human Rights, a UK-based group that addresses racism and anti-Semitism, the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, immigration, and the treatment of asylum seekers.

Klug was one of a number of academics who submitted evidence to the British All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry into Antisemitism, which published its report in September 2006. He has criticized the concept of new antisemitism as being "confused" in his 2004 essay "The Myth of the New Anti-Semitism" published in The Nation, and in several other writings.

In February 2007, he was a signatory to the declaration of Independent Jewish Voices, a new Jewish group in the UK, which criticized the Board of Deputies of British Jews for its allegedly unconditional support of Israel.

He is a member of the scientific advisory council of the Islamophobia Studies Yearbook. Wikipedia  

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Famous Brian Klug Quotes

“Balfour's interest in the Zionist cause exceeded the bounds of duty.”

Brian Klug

Jewish Year Book, 2005, p. xi

“People of goodwill who support the Palestinians resent being falsely accused of being anti-Semites.”

Brian Klug

In Search of Clarity, Catalyst, March 17, 2006., January 9, 2006 http://www.catalystmagazine.org.uk/Default.aspx.LocID-0hgnew0bv.RefLocID-0hg01b00100600f009.Lang-EN.htm,

“[W]hen anti-Semitism is everywhere, it is nowhere. And when every anti-Zionist is an anti-Semite, we no longer know how to recognize the real thing--the concept of anti-Semitism loses its significance.”

Brian Klug

The Myth of the New Anti-Semitism, The Nation, posted January 15, 2004 (February 2, 2004 issue), January 9, 2006 http://www.thenation.com/doc/20040202/klug/5,

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