Challenge is better than bans
Rapper and left-wing activist Lowkey seems to have been pressured into withdrawing from a performance at National Union of Students (NUS) conference, after the Union of Jewish Students (UJS) objected on grounds of antisemitism. Lowkey is a long-time supporter of the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign and Stop the War — but it’s not his commitment to those causes that is being attacked, at least directly. Lowkey is on the “ultra” end of left anti-Zionism, where it shades into left antisemitism. For example, he called Israel a “racist endeavour” in the middle of a row about the IHRA formula which...