Joseph Mintz

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Oct 30, 2024, 11:17 AM

Who needs ‘re-educating’ in universities?

Imagine you are a Jew sitting next to a colleague at work. You worked with them for a while and they seem quite nice, although you don’t know much about them outside of the work setting. Then they turn...

Aug 29, 2024, 3:33 PM

What we learnt from the DNC

Despite the doom mongering from some, the DNC showed that many within the Democratic party remain, at least for now, well disposed towards Israel and its right to defend itself. However, a growing minority, the squad and fellow travellers,...

Aug 14, 2024, 9:36 PM

What Charedim got right about smartphones, and we got wrong

How we laughed. When in the 2010s, Charedi Rabbis across the Jewish world came out and proclaimed bans on smartphones. How we chortled as their communities instituted the use of ‘kosher phones’, devices that only allow basic phone and...

Jul 8, 2024, 1:23 AM

Free debate on campus?

I organized a student event a few months ago designed to be a relaxed forum for students to share ideas with other students. Staff were invited as well, to show their support. It went off well and the students...

Apr 10, 2024, 11:41 PM

Is China Democratic?

Is Chinese revolutionary culture something for us to celebrate in the West? Xiamong Tian, an Assistant Professor at Xi’an University in Shaanxi Province, has written in the European Journal of Education, published by Wiley, a reputable international publisher, about...

Feb 25, 2024, 6:18 PM

In 1791, in the wake of the Enlightenment, revolutionary France emancipated its Jewish population, granting them full citizenship and supposedly equality. Some hundred years later, in 1894, Theodor Herzl, a Jew from Budapest, covered the Dreyfus affair as a...

Oct 31, 2023, 1:40 PM

The Mirage of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

The events of October 7th were mind numbingly awful, the taking of hostages a terrible wound, all compounded by the wave of antisemitism sweeping the world in response to the temerity of the Jewish people in defending themselves against more...

Oct 16, 2023, 8:44 PM

A response to union views on the Hamas pogrom

When I joined academia, 17 years ago, I had an idea that it meant that you were contributing to the betterment of society in some way. Pushing forward the boundaries of knowledge, innovation, developing young minds…the kind of things...

Oct 11, 2023, 1:28 AM

The moral vacuum at the heart of the West

The world forgot Daniel Pearl, beheaded, as a Jew, by Al-Qaeda in 2002. The world forgot Leon Klinghoffer, murdered and thrown over the side of the Achille Lauro in his wheelchair in 1985. The world forgot. The academics, and...

May 12, 2023, 6:25 AM

Passion plays, murder and the role of universities

In the late 1990s I taught at a primary school in Ealing, West London. The school served a diverse community of Sikh, Muslim and white British children. Run at the time by an experienced headteacher who had spent much...

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About Me

Joseph Mintz is Associate Professor in Education at UCL Institute of Education. He engages in research on inclusion, special educational needs, teacher education for inclusion and has led research projects funded by government and national agencies. He has written for the Jewish Chronicle, the Algemeiner and Times Higher Education. He regularly presents on issues of inclusion and special education in a range of national and international forums. Follow him @jmintzuclacuk His views are his own and do not reflect those of his employers.