Liz Fekete is director of the

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, where she has worked since 1982. She researches

racism Racism is the belief that groups of humans possess different behavioral traits corresponding to inherited attributes and can be divided based on the superiority of one race over another. It may also mean prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism ...

Islamophobia Islamophobia is the fear of, hatred of, or prejudice against the religion of Islam or Muslims in general, especially when seen as a geopolitical force or a source of terrorism. The scope and precise definition of the term ''Islamophobia'' ...

and

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in Europe. She also speaks to the media on these topics. Fekete was a member of the

Campaign Against Racism and Fascism Campaign Against Racism and Fascism (CARF) was an anti-racist group and publication based in London which originated in the mid 1970s as an anti-racist/ anti-fascist paper published by the federation of Anti-Fascist Committees in Greater London ( ...

(CARF). Fekete's book ''A Suitable Enemy: Racism, migration and Islamophobia in Europe'' (Pluto Press, 2009) argued that European racism was shifting towards xenoracism in which discrimination operated on the level of religion or culture rather than skin colour. Reviewing it in the journal ''Translocations: Migration and Social Change'', Kathleen M. Coll said it was an "utterly absorbing and deeply disturbing analysis of the recent rise of Islamophobia throughout Europe". In 2017, Fekete published ''Europe’s Fault Lines: Racism and the Rise of the Right'' on

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. It was reviewed by ''

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'', which commented that it equips a reader with the "intellectual arsenal to begin resisting fascism in all its guises." The ''

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'' observed that she considers racism and fascism must be considered together.

Selected works

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