Our founding principle is that the study of antisemitism is vital to understanding all forms of racism, prejudice and xenophobia.
We are a centre of innovative research and teaching and contribute to discussion and public policy formation on antisemitism and intolerance.
Based at Birkbeck, University of London, and established by Pears Foundation in 2010, the Pears Institute is both independent and inclusive.
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Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution
The first monograph to analyse the Bolshevik response to antisemitism.
Brendan McGeever
Labour can expel antisemites – but that won't 'root out' antisemitism in our culture
Read the analysis from Pears Institute scholars David Feldman, Ben Gidley, Brendan McGeever.
Labour and Antisemitism: a Crisis Misunderstood
An examination of antisemitism in our culture, in Labour, and what is to be done.
Ben Gidley, Brendan McGeever and David Feldman
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The Pears Institute has suspended all its events for the moment. The situation will be reviewed in May 2020.
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The Institute is located within Birkbeck, University of London, a world-class research and teaching institution.
At Birkbeck you can study: antisemitism, ethnicity, immigration, intolerance and identity, multiculturalism, racialization, racism and xenophobia.
Birkbeck's New Course
Facing Antisemitism: Politics, Culture, History
Latest Podcasts
The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment
Amelia Gentleman
A Bystander Society? Passivity and Complicity in Nazi Germany
Professor Mary Fulbrook
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Professor Tom Shakespeare