Brian Klug

Brian Klug is an honorary fellow in social philosophy at Campion Hall, Oxford, and an emeritus member of the philosophy faculty at Oxford University. He holds additional honorary fellowships from the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations at the University of Southampton and is a fellow of the College at Saint Xavier University, Chicago. Klug serves as an associate editor for "Patterns of Prejudice," a journal focused on social exclusion and stigmatization. He was also a founding member of the UK-based Jewish Forum for Justice and Human Rights, which addressed issues such as racism, antisemitism, the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, immigration, and the treatment of asylum seekers. Klug provided evidence to the British All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry into Antisemitism and has authored essays, including "The Myth of the New Anti-Semitism," in which he critiques the concept of new antisemitism. He was also a signatory to the declaration of Independent Jewish Voices, a UK Jewish group that expressed criticism of the Board of Deputies of British Jews regarding its stance on Israel. Klug is a member of the scientific advisory council of the Islamophobia Studies Yearbook.