Professor David Feldman is Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism and Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London. He joined Birkbeck in 1994 after holding lectureships at Christ’s College, Cambridge, and the University of Bristol. His research focuses on the history of antisemitism, Jewish life, racialisation and migration in modern Britain.
Alongside his scholarly work, Professor Feldman contributes to policy-oriented research on antisemitism and discrimination. He has led a pan-European project on contemporary antisemitism in Western Europe and has advised institutions including the United Nations, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and Human Rights Watch. In the UK, he has worked with the All-Party Parliamentary Group Against Antisemitism, the Labour Party and the Football Association.
He regularly provides commentary and guidance to political, cultural and philanthropic bodies, and his writing on antisemitism has appeared in The Guardian, Financial Times, Haaretz, History Workshop Online and The Independent. His latest book, co-edited with Marc Volovici, Antisemitism, Islamophobia and the Politics of Definition (Palgrave, 2023), examines how ideas about identity and discrimination shape public debate.