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How identity politics failed one particular identity. ‘A must read and if you think YOU don’t need to read it, that’s just the clue to know you do’ SARAH SILVERMAN ‘A masterpiece' STEPHEN FRY Jews Don’t Count is a book for people on the right side of history. People fighting the good fight against homophobia, disablism, transphobia and, particularly, racism. People, possibly, like you. It is the comedian and writer David Baddiel’s contention that one type of racism has been left out of this fight. In his unique combination of reasoning, polemic, personal experience and jokes, Baddiel argues that those who think of themselves as on the right side of history have often ignored the history of anti-Semitism. He outlines why and how, in a time of intensely heightened awareness of minorities, Jews don’t count as a real minority.

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David Baddiel is a brilliant thinker and writer. Even when I disagree with him--especially when I disagree with him--I feel profound gratitude for his intellectual and moral clarity. This is a brave and necessary book. Jonathan Safran Foer This is a bare-knuckle fist-fight of a book - snarly, sweary, unrestrained, unsparing. Baddiel's great advantage as a polemicist is that he's familiar with the worlds where anti-Semites flourish - the football terraces, comedy, journalism, the stage, Twitter, even the Labour Party - and is well apprised of their tactics. It isn't that he punches low; it's that he knows how to defend himself when they do. A win by knockout - early in the third. Howard Jacobson 'Patient, clear and persuasive - which makes it not just admirable but valuable' Jonathan Freedland 'Just so brilliantly argued and written, I was completely swept along' Hadley Freeman

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David Baddiel was born in 1964 in Troy, New York, but grew up and lives in London. He is a comedian, television writer, columnist and author. His children's books have sold more than a million copies in the UK alone, and his debut, The Parent Agency, won the Laugh Out Loud Book Award. David lives in London with his family.

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