{"id":46683,"date":"2025-05-23T09:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T09:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=46683"},"modified":"2025-05-23T09:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T09:03:08","slug":"rachel-shabi-off-white-the-truth-about-antisemitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=46683","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Shabi, \u201eOff-White: The Truth About Antisemitism\u201c"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Why can\u2019t we talk about antisemitism?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2018I cannot wait for <em>Off-White<\/em> to be read, debated and put into practice.\u2019 Naomi Klein, author of&nbsp;<em>Doppelganger<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As claims of antisemitism continue to distort our politics at home and abroad, it has become almost impossible to talk about constructively, even in private. Instead, we find ourselves in a storm of misinformation, political mudslinging and bad-faith accusations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is, however, a way to deliberate more honestly. Looking beyond our polarising headlines and interrogating the reasons racism takes hold, <em>Off-White<\/em> offers urgent analysis of one of the most divisive issues of our time. Taking in the contingency of whiteness, Judeo-Christian mythmaking, pro-Israel antisemitism, and the Palestinian struggle against colonialism, Rachel Shabi lights a hopeful way forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2018Timely and valuable\u2026 [Shabi\u2019s] key message is a vital one \u2013 that the fight against antisemitism is an essential part of the fight against all injustice and dehumanisation.\u2019&nbsp;<em>Observer<\/em>, Book of the Week<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2018A masterpiece defined by moral clarity, humanity and insight.\u2019 Owen Jones<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2018An invaluable guide for anyone who seeks to understand issues over which we stumble far too often.\u2019 George Monbiot<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2018With a generous spirit and a humane compass, Rachel Shabi guides us through a minefield.\u2019 Gary Younge<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oneworld-publications.com\/work\/off-white\">https:\/\/oneworld-publications.com\/work\/off-white<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Off-White.jpg?fit=964%2C1536&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":53824,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=53824","url_meta":{"origin":46683,"position":0},"title":"Prikazivanje filma &#8220;Fiume o morte!&#8221;, razgovor s redateljem Igorom Bezinovi\u0107em i diskusija doktoranada u Grazu","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"29. svibnja 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"Movie Screening Fiume o Morte! 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