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Review: Tangled in Terror. Uprooting Islamophobia, by Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan

Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi

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Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan deploys a fierce, uncompromising logic forcing us to confront colonial-based racism infecting every pore of British society. Reading it, I felt as if skeins of a web were tightening around me, challenging many of my assumptions as a non-religious, white Jewish leftie. There was no escape from the piercing gaze of this devout, revolutionary Muslim woman—a poet and activist, writer and educator.

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    Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi

    Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi is the media officer for Jewish Voice for Labour. She was elected to the Labour Party NEC in 2022, then expelled from the party.

    Articles by Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi
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Volume 96, Issue 3

This issue features a collection titled 'The Intellectual and Political Legacy of David Marquand', who died in April 2024, edited by Colin Crouch, Ben Jackson and Peter Sloman. In this collection, authors including Jean Seaton, Will Hutton and Hilary Wainwright consider Marquand's legacy as a great progressive thinker, his biography of Ramsay MacDonald, Labour's first prime minister, and the role of socialism for Marquand. Other articles include a commentary by Deborah Mabbett titled 'Welfare reform by numbers'; Jeremy Gilbert and Alex Williams on 'The Vices of Values: Matthew Goodwin and the Politics of Motivation'; Helen McCarthy on 'Why the WASPI has no Sting: Gender, Generation and Pension Inequalities'; and Sam Taylor Hill, Tariq Modood and John Denham on 'Multicultural Nationalism: Saving the White Working Class from Blue Labour?' A selection of book reviews feature Edmund Fawcett's review of 'Nationalism: A World History' by Eric Storm and Samuel Cohn's review of 'Controlling Contagion: Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to Covid' by Sheilagh Ogilvie.

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