Dave Rich

Dave Rich is an Associate Research Fellow at the Pears Institute for the Study of Anti-Semitism, Birkbeck College, University of London, where he was awarded his PhD in 2015. He works at the Community Security Trust (CST), and is the author of 'The Left's Jewish Problem: Jeremy Corbyn, Israel and Anti-Semitism'.

Latest from Dave Rich

Holocaust

Pro-Gaza MPs comparing Israel to Nazis brought shame onto Parliament

To weaponise the most painful events in Jewish history, to which some Jews alive today are witnesses, is to play with fire.

2 min read

Adnan Hussain MP (Image: Parliament TV).

Israeli soldiers remove bodies of of Israeli civilians in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, near the Israeli-Gaza border, in southern Israel, October 10, 2023. (Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

October 7 and the celebrations that followed on UK streets stirred our deepest demons

8 min read

The last two weeks show the Guardian's antisemitism blind spot still remains

3 min read

28th September 1936: British fascist politician Oswald Mosley (1896 - 1980) speaking at a rally in Leeds. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

From Mosley to Corbyn, the fight against the oldest hatred goes on

4 min read

Why are far too few antisemitic hate crimes prosecuted?

Met Police and the CPS have all the right policies for tackling Jew-hate – but we need results

1 min read

February 3, 2022 11:32

London, England, UK - December 7, 2014: Westminster Magistrates' Court is a magistrates' court at 181 Marylebone Road, London. The court opened on 22 September 2011. The Chief Magistrate of England and Wales, who is the Senior District Judge of England and Wales, sits at the court, and all extradition and terrorism-related cases pass through it.

Review of 2021: The year anti-Zionism came out of the closet in Britain

The phenomenon of antisemitism was more apparent than ever

6 min read

December 31, 2021 15:03

Review of 2021: The year anti-Zionism came out of the closet in Britain

Five tropes about Jews in one tweet - good going!

An impressive effort from Janine di Giovanni

1 min read

December 13, 2021 16:01

Five tropes about Jews in one tweet - good going!

Wise up to the coded language of Jew-hatred

The QC hired by Bristol to investigate David Miller has produced a terrible, foolish report

3 min read

December 3, 2021 11:17

Highlighted English word "anti semitism" and its definition in the dictionary.

Guess who Prof Miller blames for his sacking?

In the former professor's world there can be no understanding of Zionism as the yearning of a long-exiled people

3 min read

November 5, 2021 12:04

Guess who Prof Miller blames for his sacking?

Deep inside UK's neo-Nazi underground

Dave Rich reveals his role in catching the nail bomber

3 min read

July 1, 2021 12:01

B52ABN Two people died April 1999 and dozens were injured when a massive nail bomb ripped through a gay pub in the heart of Old Compton Street central London

Why such intense hatred for the Jewish state?

No other issue generates such heat in Britain — and the cause is dark and deep-rooted

3 min read

May 20, 2021 10:14

LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 15: Protesters burn an Israeli flag outside the Israeli Embassy as demonstrators show their support for Palestinians on May 15, 2021 in London, England. Several Israeli cities have experienced clashes between Jewish and Arab mobs in recent days, with hundreds of people being charged with rioting offenses. The violence follows days of cross-border fighting between militants in the Gaza Strip, who have fired hundreds of rockets into Israel, and Israeli airstrikes that have killed dozens across the Palestinian coastal enclave. (Photo by Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images)

We don’t need another definition of Jew hate

Those behind the ‘Jerusalem Declaration’ risk setting back the fight against antisemitism, writes Dave Rich

3 min read

April 1, 2021 11:04

We don’t need another definition of Jew hate

David Feldman should not be encouraging those who denigrate Jews

The director of Britain's only academic centre for the study of antisemitism "comes dangerously close to a classic antisemitic trope" in his views, write two of the centre's associates

9 min read

December 14, 2020 17:45

David Feldman should not be encouraging those who denigrate Jews

Labour's new antisemitism website raises more questions than it answers

The party thinks the crisis is caused by a small number of members but it is a problem of political culture and institutional racism, writes Dr Dave Rich

2 min read

July 23, 2019 08:40