Brian Klug

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Brian Klug is Senior Research Fellow & Tutor in Philosophy at St. Benet's Hall, Oxford and a member of the philosophy faculty at Oxford University. He is also an honorary fellow of the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations, University of Southampton.

He is associate editor of Patterns of Prejudice, a peer-reviewed journal examining social exclusion and stigmatization, <ref>Patterns of Prejudice, Taylor and Francis Group, retrieved September 7, 2006.</ref> and a founder member of the Jewish Forum for Justice and Human Rights, a UK-based group that addresses racism and anti-Semitism, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, immigration, and the treatment of asylum seekers.

Klug was one of a number of academics who submitted evidence to the British All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry into Antisemitism, which published its report in September 2006. <ref name=APP58>"Report of the All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry into Anti-Semitism"PDF, September 2006, p.58.</ref> He has criticized the concept of new antisemitism as being "confused" in his 2004 essay "The Myth of the New Anti-Semitism" published in The Nation<ref name=brianklug>Klug, Brian, The Myth of the New Anti-Semitism, The Nation, February 2, 2004, accessed September 7 2006.</ref>, and in several other writings.

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"The collective Jew: Israel and the new antisemitism," used as a resource by the EUMC in their report Manifestations of Antisemitism in the EU 2002-2003, Vienna, March 2004. See especially pp. 12-13, 225-241.
The Myth of the New Anti-Semitism. The Nation, posted January 15, 2004; February 2, 2004 issue.
Israel, Antisemitism and the left, Red Pepper, November 24, 2005.
with Wistrich, Robert S. "Correspondence between Prof. Robert Wistrich and Brian Klug: When Is Opposition to Israel and Its Policies Anti-Semitic?", International Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism, Hebrew Universi]ty of Jerusalem, retrieved September 8, 2006.
"In search of clarity", Catalyst, March 17, 2006.