The Islamophobia concept was born partly from Runnymede’s earlier antisemitism work

Evidence

As early as 1994, three years before the publication of Islamophobia: A Challenge for Us All, the Runnymede Trust convened a commission on ‘the persistence and dangers of antisemitism’. One member, Akbar Ahmed, expressed his hope that the Trust would set up a similar commission ‘to study prejudice against Muslims and Islam’. His colleagues agreed to the extent that they included the aspiration in their final report (Runnymede Commission on Antisemitism 1994: 15). This tentative connection drawn between Islamophobia and antisemitism has been supplemented and developed more systematically in the last decades by scholars, as well as by institutions whose aim is to combat racism and discrimination. Together they suggest that Islamophobia and antisemitism should be conceived within a single frame of analysis and action, though they differ over how exactly this should be done. — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 692

Categorization

• XREF: Genealogical link between the Runnymede antisemitism commission and the 1997 Islamophobia report — directly relevant to the reader’s task of locating this text’s origins. — connects to: The 1997 Runnymede Commission introduced, not invented, the term Islamophobia. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 605; The linking of Islamophobia with antisemitism predates the 1997 Runnymede report. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 697; Runnymede’s 1997 Islamophobia framework is a liberal construct defining harm as unfounded hostility — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 715 (+10 more)

Related

• The linking of Islamophobia with antisemitism predates the 1997 Runnymede report. (similarity 0.95)
• The Runnymede Trust originated Islamophobia as a concept via its anti-Semitism report (similarity 0.94)
• Runnymede drew on anti-Semitism analogies yet built a different, dualistic model (similarity 0.91)
• The term Islamophobia originated in a 1991 Runnymede Trust report (similarity 0.91)
• The 1994 Runnymede report first acknowledged Islamophobia in British non-Muslim print. (similarity 0.90)
• Runnymede’s 1997 Islamophobia framework is a liberal construct defining harm as unfounded hostility (similarity 0.90)
• The 1997 Runnymede report defined Islamophobia as faith-based discrimination beyond ethnicity (similarity 0.90)
• The Runnymede report introduced Islamophobia as marking Muslim-specific experience beyond shared discrimination. (similarity 0.90)
• The 1997 Runnymede Commission introduced, not invented, the term Islamophobia. (similarity 0.90)
• The Runnymede model so dominated Islamophobia discourse that it escaped critical scrutiny (similarity 0.90)
• The 1997 Runnymede definition fused hostility to Islam with discrimination against Muslims (similarity 0.89)
• The Runnymede report classed Islamophobia as racism without defining it as racism (similarity 0.89)
• The Runnymede Trust defines Islamophobia as a form of racism against Muslims (similarity 0.89)
• The Runnymede report defines Islamophobia inconsistently across sentiment, prejudice, and discrimination. (similarity 0.88)
• The Runnymede Trust acknowledged Islamophobia as racism in 1994 (similarity 0.88)

Broader Connections

• Runnymede drew on anti-Semitism analogies yet built a different, dualistic model #expands (0.88) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 390
• The Runnymede Trust originated Islamophobia as a concept via its anti-Semitism report #qualifies (0.85) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 263
• Rokeach’s ahistorical framework shaped how Runnymede conceived Islamophobia #expands (0.78) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 361
• Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia are parallel projects of majority exclusion #expands (0.72) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 482
• Islamophobia is a fluid neo-ideology built from reinterpreted historical material #expands (0.72) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 839
• The Runnymede report grounded its definition in community consultation and direct visits #qualifies (0.72) — Runnymede Trust, Islamophobia, 48