Ayala Maurer-Prager, at The Blogs

Jul 27, 2020, 5:04 PM

Wiley aka Richard Cowie Jnr. (Photo credit: Ian West/PA Wire via Jewish News)

The tide of antisemitism has been rising, steady and unrelenting, for some time. Of course, this is not without precedent; Jewish communities across space and time have experienced antisemitism with a frequency that has made such encounters depressingly predictable. It seems, though, that a peak...

Jun 3, 2020, 7:53 PM

We need a reckoning – Jews, race and the death of George Floyd

People at a Black Lives Matter protest rally outside the US Embassy in Dublin following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, US. Gardai are investigating the protest in Dublin over alleged lockdown breaches. (Jewish News)

With the death of George Floyd, everything has changed. With the death of George Floyd, nothing has changed. I have followed and advocated for the #BlackLivesMatter (BLM) movement since it was founded in 2013 in response to the acquittal of George Zimmerman, who shot and...

About Me

Ayala Maurer-Prager holds a PhD from University College London (UCL) in Conflict Response, Crisis and Human Rights, and specialises in comparative genocide studies and the dynamics of race and gender in conflict and humanitarian contexts. She has worked in communications and advocacy, and is looking forward to developing her career in consulting when she returns from maternity leave in September. She lives in North West London with her husband and two sons.