Judging past antiracists solely by antisemitism distorts their political trajectories

Evidence

Epstein’s account, though, by focusing narrowly on individuals’ attitudes to the question of antisemitism, sometimes overstates the case by basing it on one criterion: he does not give much information on attitudes to colonial racism, and is influenced by a teleological assumption of the inherent futility of the struggle against antisemitism. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 1352

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth pursuing: how does the criterion one selects (antisemitism vs colonial racism) retroactively reshape our reading of individual political biographies?