Published in 2024
8 hours and 5 minutes
Rachel Shabi is an award-winning journalist and contributing editor for the Guardian. She has also written for the New York Times, Independent, New Statesman, Al Jazeera, and the Times. In 2011 she was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Journalism and her book Not the Enemy: Israel’s Jews from Arab Lands won a National Jewish Book Award.
What is this book about?
Why can’t we talk about antisemitism?
As claims of antisemitism continue to distort our politics at home and abroad, it has become almost impossible to talk about constructively, even in private. Instead, we find ourselves in a storm of misinformation, political mudslinging, and bad-faith accusations.
There is, however, a way to deliberate more honestly. Looking beyond our polarizing headlines and interrogating the reasons racism takes hold, Off-White offers urgent analysis of one of the most divisive issues of our time. Taking in the contingency of whiteness, Judeo-Christian mythmaking, pro-Israel antisemitism, and the Palestinian struggle against colonialism, Rachel Shabi lights a hopeful way forward.
