Frank Furedi

Professor of Sociology at University of Kent, and author of Politics of Fear, Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone?, Therapy Culture, Paranoid Parenting and Culture of Fear.
 
       
 

race

After Gaza: what’s behind 21st-century anti-Semitism?
spiked, 19 January 2009
Anti-Israel sentiment is morphing into anti-Jewish sentiment, as more and more people project their disdain for the modern world on to ‘the Jew’.

Europe’s Estrangement from Israel
Pajamas Media, 17 January 2009
By distancing itself from the Jewish state, Europe seeks to deflect the anger of its Muslim population.

Kenya is not the new Rwanda
spiked, 8 January 2008
Why Western observers see every political conflict in Africa as an inexplicable outburst of violence and a harbinger of ‘holocaust’.

What’s behind the ‘new anti-semitism’?
spiked, 6 March 2007
The game of ‘spot the anti-Semite’ currently being played in intellectual circles misses what is new in expressions of the oldest prejudice today

Who can pass the spelling test?
An anthology marking the 30th anniversary of the Commission for Racial Equality, November 2006

The rise of the rising sun
BBC History, September 2005
Exploring how the defeat of Russia by Japan 100 years ago this month had long lasting implications for race relations. [pdf format]