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Dave Rich

@daverich1.bsky.social
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I write about antisemitism. Latest book: Everyday Hate: How Antisemitism Is Built Into Our World & How You Can Change It. X/Twitter at @daverich1, but maybe not for much longer. Substack at 'Everyday Hate'.

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Dave Rich @daverich1.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Next week's antisemitism conference in Israel has caused divisions in the global struggle against anti-Jewish hate just when we need unity the most. I've written about what it means. everydayhate.substack.com/p/the-antise...
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The antisemitism conference
Next week the Israeli government will host an International Conference on Combating Antisemitism in Jerusalem, with speakers and delegates from across the world gathering “to raise awareness about the...
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Dave Rich @daverich1.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Good old @theguardian.com, urging Jews to celebrate Purim by reflecting on "the evil that Jews commit" and "the danger we pose" to non-Jews... "With the blood of their foes barely dry, the Jews feast and make merry." Happy Purim! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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As Jews celebrate Purim, let us end the slaughter in Gaza committed in our name | Peter Beinart
Our refusal to reckon with the dark side of Purim reflects a refusal to reckon with the dark side of ourselves
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Richard Beach @mrseaside.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Today? Simply this. From @daverich1.bsky.social. everydayhate.substack.com/p/now-we-see...
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Now we see you - again
So this is what it has come to: all that talk of decolonisation, of freedom fighters, of liberation and heroic resistance.
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Dave Rich @daverich1.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
All that talk of decolonisation, freedom fighters, liberation & resistance, and it ends with Jewish children paraded in coffins as grotesque propaganda props by Hamas. It feels like the right day to remember how some people welcomed October 7 at the time everydayhate.substack.com/p/now-we-see...
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Now we see you - again
So this is what it has come to: all that talk of decolonisation, of freedom fighters, of liberation and heroic resistance.
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Dave Rich @daverich1.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
The AI-generated fake video of Jewish celebrities supposedly denouncing Kanye West's antisemitism exposed a troubling reality: we need artificial outrage because genuine outrage is in such short supply. everydayhate.substack.com/p/artificial...
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Artificial Outrage
A few days ago my social media feeds were full of an AI-generated video of famous Jewish celebrities giving the finger, sort of, to Kanye West.
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Dave Rich @daverich1.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
If Palestinians want to leave Gaza and live somewhere else, then if there are other countries willing to offer them residency or citizenship they should be able to go. The moment they are forced against their will to leave en masse, it is ethnic cleansing. I don't see how it can be anything else.
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Dave Rich @daverich1.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Striking how similar the sentiments - and even exact wording - is on this Hamas banner to the placards and chants on protests in the UK. “Nazi Zionism”, victory to the resistance, etc. Different parts of the same movement.
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Jon P @pparker49.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
"Musk the Troll" by Dave Rich. Superb analysis of that Nazi salute and what may or may not lie behind it. #antisemitism
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Dave Rich @daverich1.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
It was a Nazi salute - but does that mean Elon Musk is a Nazi? As ever, it's a bit more complicated than that. everydayhate.substack.com/p/musk-the-t...
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Musk the Troll
It was a Nazi salute.
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Dave Rich @daverich1.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
It was a fascist salute. Even if it came from his subconscious, that’s what it was. There shouldn’t be any doubt about that.
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Dave Rich @daverich1.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
With Holocaust Memorial Day approaching I've written about Pankaj Mishra's London Review of Books essay 'The Shoah After Gaza'. It was a deeply disturbing work linking traditional anti-Jewish narratives & contemporary intellectual anti-Zionism: this is my response. isca.indiana.edu/publication-...
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Shoah Revisionism After Gaza
Beinner Family Research Papers: Dave Rich.
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Andy Bell @andybell2000.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Excellent piece from Dave Rich on the implications of changes to Facebook and other Meta entities.
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Mark Gardner @markg-cst.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Brilliant.
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Dave Rich @daverich1.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Changes announced by Meta this week - ditching fact-checkers & removing automated filters for hate speech - confirm that they never really believed in the need to remove hate content, and now, in a Muskovite online world, they don't have to pretend. everydayhate.substack.com/p/meta-opens...
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Meta opens the floodgates
Back in the days when people were still working out whether social media companies could be forced to take responsibility for hosting antisemitic and other hateful content, a Facebook page called ‘Jew...
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Dave Rich @daverich1.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Update to this post: The Met Police have now imposed legal restrictions on PSC's demonstration to force them to change their plans. news.met.police.uk/news/met-use...
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Met uses powers to prevent protest gathering close to London synagogue
We have reached the view that a protest forming up so close to a synagogue on a Saturday – the Jewish holy day – when congregants will be attending Shabbat...
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Dave Rich @daverich1.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Police have asked the Palestine Solidarity Campaign to move their next march so it doesn't clash with Shabbat morning services at a nearby synagogue. PSC have refused. The row gets to the heart of what the marches are for & their impact on community tensions everydayhate.substack.com/p/move-the-m...
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Move the march
The news this week that the Metropolitan Police are trying to move the next pro-Palestine march away from a central London synagogue made me think of a comment made by US Secretary of State Anthony Bl...
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Dave Rich @daverich1.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Very much looking forward to taking part in this jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/events/simon...
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Simon Sebag-Montefiore & Dave Rich - Jewish Literary Foundation
In a recent Sky News interview, Simon Sebag Montefiore observed, “In historical terms, what we’re seeing is the end of the taboo on antisemitism,” 80 years after the end of World War Two. Now, the acc...
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Dave Rich @daverich1.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Maajid Nawaz has finally completed the circular journey back to his antisemitic conspiracist roots, blaming the grooming gangs on Mossad.
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The Wiener Holocaust Library @wienerlibrary.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
📽 Catch up now on a fascinating talk by @daverich1.bsky.social, Antisemitism and the Holocaust since October 7 He explored how antisemitic tropes and understandings (or misunderstandings) of the Holocaust may condition responses to the conflict in the middle east:
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Antisemitism and the Holocaust since October 7th, with Dave Rich
Dr Dave Rich, Director of Policy at the Community Security Trust (CST), explores how antisemitism links to interpretations and understanding of the Holocaust...
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Dave Rich @daverich1.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Time to get rid of that blue tick on my X account.
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Dave Rich @daverich1.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Writing about antisemitism can be a miserable business, so I thought that, in the spirit of the season, I should use my last newsletter of 2024 to suggest five reasons to be optimistic for 2025 everydayhate.substack.com/p/reasons-to...
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Reasons to be Cheerful
Writing and talking about antisemitism can be a depressing business.
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Community Security Trust @cstuk.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Our Chief Executive, @markg-cst.bsky.social and Director of Policy, @daverich1.bsky.social attended Keir Starmer Chanukah reception at 10 Downing Street alongside many others from across the Jewish community. Thank you for your support.
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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Every single time this argument comes up it is Mizrahi erasure. Worse -- it's not just forgetting Mizrahi and other MENA Jews exist, it's insisting their very identity is a form of theft. They must choose: they can be Jews, or Middle Eastern, but not both.
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Dave Rich @daverich1.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
This week the Irish government asked the ICJ to widen its legal definition of genocide for the case against Israel. Amnesty International have suggested the same. What does this tell us about the campaign to convict Israel of genocide? everydayhate.substack.com/p/shifting-t...
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Shifting the goalposts of genocide
This week the Irish government announced they are to join South Africa’s case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), in which Israel stands accused of genocide - the most heinous ...
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Dave Rich @daverich1.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Israel destroying Syria's air force, navy, chemical weapons and other strategic military assets, so that jihadists or anyone else can't use them, is the kind of thing that governments across the Middle East and Europe will be secretly cheering while publicly condemning www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Israel seizing on Syria chaos to strike military assets
Israel has attacked Syrian military assets and has troops operating in the Golan buffer zone and slightly beyond.
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The Wiener Holocaust Library @wienerlibrary.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
📽 Catch up now on a fascinating talk by @daverich1.bsky.social, Antisemitism and the Holocaust since October 7 He explored how antisemitic tropes and understandings (or misunderstandings) of the Holocaust may condition responses to the conflict in the middle east: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnAa...
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Antisemitism and the Holocaust since October 7th, with Dave Rich
YouTube video by The Wiener Holocaust Library
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Dave Rich @daverich1.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Thinking of David Miller and George Galloway on this difficult day for them and their crank Assadist friends.
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Mark Gardner @markg-cst.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
This is superb
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Dave Rich @daverich1.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
The arson at Melbourne's Adass Israel Synagogue ought to shock everyone - except it isn't shocking at all, because this is the state antisemitism has reached now. It's time for everyone to act everydayhate.substack.com/p/arson-in-m...
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Arson in Melbourne, fire all around
Tomorrow morning, as on every Shabbat morning, Jews around the world will go to synagogue to pray, chat, eat and feel part of their community - except at Melbourne's Adass Israel Synagogue, which was ...
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Dave Rich @daverich1.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Including Jews in ethnicity-based monitoring was one of the recommendations I made in Everyday Hate - we can't tackle antisemitism if we don't measure it properly.
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Center for Countering Digital Hate @counterhate.com · 03/12/2024
📢 Today is Giving Tuesday! Want to build a safer internet for kids, teens & everyone? Donate to CCDH and help us hold social media companies & their bosses accountable for the harms they create. Donate today 👇 donate.counterhate.com/page/88254/d...
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Dave Rich @daverich1.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
So much misogyny in one comment. Maybe “middle class women of a certain age” have more agency to complain, especially on Celebrity Masterchef where - unlike regular Masterchef - they are less likely to fear risking their dreams if they speak up, and are more likely to know who to complain to in TV.
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Dave Rich @daverich1.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Last week a mosque in Preston came under pressure for hosting a meeting with local Jewish community leaders. It's an example of how extremist groups and narratives are trying to squeeze Jews out of public spaces - and with it damaging social cohesion for all everydayhate.substack.com/p/squeezing-...
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Squeezing Jews out of public life
You wouldn’t ordinarily look to Preston when trying to assess the impact on Jewish life of the October 7 terror attack and the subsequent war in Gaza, but events in that Lancashire town over the past ...
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Dave Rich @daverich1.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Last week a mosque in Preston came under pressure for hosting a meeting with local Jewish community leaders. It's an example of how extremist groups and narratives are trying to squeeze Jews out of public spaces - and with it damaging social cohesion for all everydayhate.substack.com/p/squeezing-...
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Squeezing Jews out of public life
You wouldn’t ordinarily look to Preston when trying to assess the impact on Jewish life of the October 7 terror attack and the subsequent war in Gaza, but events in that Lancashire town over the past ...
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Dave Rich @daverich1.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Get 29% off Everyday Hate today! Amazon says “Customers find the book informative and well-researched on antisemitism… a definitive text on the subject, with fascinating sections on Israel. Readers praise the writing style as engaging and lighthearted.” Who am I to disagree? amzn.eu/d/6uxJ0qn
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Dave Rich @daverich1.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
It's like James II losing the Glorious Revolution because of his debilitating nosebleeds
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Dave Rich @daverich1.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
An important thread about Musk's political trajectory in relation to UK politics; and also about how UK political culture differs from that of the United States in ways that Musk does not understand.
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Dave Rich @daverich1.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
I've currently got 17k followers on X and 700 here. But I'll be posting more here than there, for the same reason that I'd rather go for a walk through a nice park than trudge through a filthy swamp. And hopefully those follower numbers will gradually climb.
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Dave Rich @daverich1.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
I've made a Starter Pack for research & insight into antisemitism, extremism, conspiracy theories and similar unpleasant but important things. I'm sure I've forgotten people & I'll add more as I go along, but as the name suggests - it's a start! go.bsky.app/L3v2Zp9
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Comms Guy Matt @commsguymatt.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Quality list!
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Dave Rich @daverich1.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
David Miller thinks *Saudi Arabia* is set on erasing Islam from the earth and wants Iran to develop nuclear weapons to stop them.
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Dave Rich @daverich1.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
I've made a Starter Pack for research & insight into antisemitism, extremism, conspiracy theories and similar unpleasant but important things. I'm sure I've forgotten people & I'll add more as I go along, but as the name suggests - it's a start! go.bsky.app/L3v2Zp9
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Dave Rich @daverich1.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
In 2015 Portugal offered citizenship to people descended from medieval Jewish communities expelled in the 14th/15th century. To prove Jewish heritage they used traditional Jewish surnames from that period - and Amorim is on the list. That’s enough for Jewish MUFC fans to get even more excited imv
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Dave Rich @daverich1.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Happy to say I was already following a lot of these excellent people. I highly recommend you do the same!
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Charlotte Henry @charlotteahenry.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
SPECIAL REPORT: 5Pillars’ latest discrimination breach shines new light on its alarming content. My latest story for Jewish News: www.jewishnews.co.uk/special-repo...
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SPECIAL REPORT: 5Pillars’ latest discrimination breach shines new light on its alarming content
As regulator Impress finds the Muslim news platform guilty of breaching discrimination rules for a second time this year, concerns grow over its content and far-right collaborations
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Andreas Gustavsson @andreasgustavsson.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Väldigt intressant intervju med @daverich1.bsky.social som var på SKMA-konferensen. Håller verkligen inte med honom om allt. Men ändå. Eller kanske just därför.
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Dave Rich: Man varken kan eller bör skilja på judar och Israel
Men vad du inte ska göra är att hålla judar ansvariga för vad staten Israel gör, säger han. 
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Joe Mulhall @joemulhall.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
"It should be possible to campaign for Palestinian freedom, condemn racist Israeli football fans, and still show genuine, unequivocal solidarity with European Jews who are once more being squeezed out of public life." New by @daverich1.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The violence in Amsterdam showed just how polarising – and radicalising – the Middle East conflict has been | Dave Rich
It should be possible to campaign for Palestinian freedom, condemn racist Israeli football fans and still show unequivocal solidarity with European Jews, says author and campaigner Dave Rich
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Dave Rich @daverich1.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Some more thoughts about the violence in Amsterdam, or rather on the various reactions to it, now that everyone has settled into their chosen narrative about what happened www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The violence in Amsterdam showed just how polarising – and radicalising – the Middle East conflict has been | Dave Rich
It should be possible to campaign for Palestinian freedom, condemn racist Israeli football fans and still show unequivocal solidarity with European Jews, says author and campaigner Dave Rich
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Dave Rich @daverich1.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
The violence in Amsterdam was not a football riot, or a pogrom, but a warning of the antisemitic potential that still resides in European society: and a sign of who will stand with Europe’s Jews and who would betray us. open.substack.com/pub/everyday...
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A warning from Amsterdam
There has been much said and written about the violence in Amsterdam before and after the football match between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Ajax this week, and it’s been interesting, if rather odd, to watch...
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Dave Rich @daverich1.bsky.social · 27/10/2024
False Friends: why yesterday's marches in central London have nothing to offer Jews in the struggle against antisemitism open.substack.com/pub/everyday...
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False friends
Yesterday there were two marches in central London, part of the never-ending stream of political demonstrations in our capital city.
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