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In June 2020, Black Lives Matter UK (BLM-UK) posted a series of tweets in which they endorsed the pro-Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. Calling for 'targeted sanctions in line with international law against Israel's colonial, apartheid regime,' one tweet claimed that 'mainstream British politics is gagged of the right to critique Zionism'. The tweets were seen by some to be antisemitic and resulted in the English Premier League, the BBC and Sky Sports, which had hitherto been supportive of the Black Lives Matter protests, distance themselves from the Black Lives Matter movement. One month later, during the BLM protests in the USA, Black NFL player DeSean Jackson posted material to his Instagram story that was also viewed as antisemitic. This article unpacks, via these two sports-based incidents, the relationship between anti-racism, antisemitism, and anti-Zionism. I discuss how these tensions are not new, but a clear echo of the tensions that existed in the 1960s and 1970s during the height of the Civil Rights Movement; these tensions continue because the foundational issues remain unchanged. These two incidents raise important questions about how sports organisations operate in a world where sport is seen as 'apolitical' and strive for 'neutrality' but fail to recognise sport is political and that a position of neutrality cannot be successfully achieved. The article assesses the challenges that arise when sports organisations, and their athletes, choose to engage in a certain kind of sport politics.

This article examines the relationship between sport and Jewish identity. The experiences of Jewish people have rarely been considered in previous sport-related research which has typically focused on 'Black' and South Asian individuals, sports clubs, and organisations. Drawing on data generated from interviews ( n = 20) and focus groups ( n = 2) with individuals based in one British city, this article explores how their Jewish identity was informed, and shaped by, different sports activities and spaces. This study's participants were quick to correct the idea that sport was alien to Jewish culture and did not accept the stereotype that 'Jews don't play sport'. The limited historical research on sport and Jewish people and the ongoing debates around Jewish identity are noted before exploring the role of religion and the suggestion that Jewish participation in sport is affected by the Shabbat (sabbath). Participants discussed how sports clubs acted as spaces for the expression and re/affirmation of their Jewish identity, before they reflected on the threats posed to the wider Jewish community by secularism, assimilation, and antisemitism. The article concludes by discussing how the sporting experiences of the study's British Jewish participants compare with the experiences of individuals from other ethnic minority communities.

The paper identifies and summarises the debates that surround the place of Israel in international sport and assesses how that place is increasingly being contested. The long-standing conflict between Israel and Palestine has begun to manifest in the world of sport with the paper sketching the debates of those calling for, and those opposed to, sport sanctions/boycott of Israel until the 'Palestinian Question' is resolved. Five related tasks are addressed: first, to summarise the call for sanctions/boycott emanating from the Boycott, Disinvestment and Sanctions movement. The second is to explore how this call is establishing itself in the world of sport. The responses of those opposed to any form of sanction/boycott are then considered. The confusion that surrounds the term antisemitism is addressed and the relationship between (anti-) Zionism and antisemitism unpacked. The discussion concludes with an assessment of the claim made by the Israeli state, and its supporters, that any action against the country's participation in international sport would be an act of antisemitism. Offering a timely, integrated summary of the heated debates that surround the Israel/Palestine conflict, the paper contributes to a wider discussion on the relationship between sport and politics.

There is a relatively significant recent growth of discourses regarding the practice of 'enterprising' and 'entrepreneurial' universities (eg. Gibb and Haskins, 2013, Vostal and Robertson, 2012, Gibb, 2012, Philpott et al, 2011, Kasim, 2011, Weingart and Maasen, 2007, Kirby, 2007). Universities are exhorted to become entrepreneurial and enterprising, both in terms of business-like processes (creating adaptable, flexible and market-responsive structures) and in terms of business-like goals (diversifying revenue streams beyond traditional reliance of government and classical-student tuition revenue streams) (Dart, 2004). Despite widespread discussion, nearly ubiquitous rhetoric and fairly widespread experimentation-at-the-margins, there is as yet very little of empirical or analytical substance to ground serious discussions of significant institutional change in the post-secondary education sector. Perhaps because of their important role in many nations as fundamental social institutions, the pressures to marketize and/or commercialize universities - the pressures to become dramatically enterprising – have only occurred more recently in the university sector than in the broader civil society, nonprofit and charitable sectors. Here, the movement for 'enterprising nonprofits' and 'social entrepreneurs' (Hansmann, 1980, Young, 1980) began much earlier and became mainstream discourse almost twenty years ago (Emerson and Twersky, 1996, Leadbeater, 1997, Dees, Emerson and Economy, 2002). Here the experience with the evolution of both the idea and the practice of an 'enterprising' field has been much more widespread and much more developed. This paper proposes to examine both the hopes and rhetorics of the 'enterprising nonprofit' field, as well as the ensuing empirical experience of nonprofits as they reposition themselves along various locations of the 'social enterprise continuum' in order to develop some postulates for those planning and/or implementing 'enterprising university' reform to consider. Based on the experience of the social enterprise and 'enterprising nonprofits' fields, this paper will discuss several fundamental themes from which may be germinal to discussions of a similar kind of discursive and practice field in the postsecondary education sector. Themes developed in the paper will include … 1. the oft-documented role of 'enterprising' discourse in the creation and maintenance of organizational legitimacy and organizational identity (Grant and Dart, 2014, Dart, 2004b), 2. the frequently overestimated capacity for commercial or 'alternative' revenue generation that is found in 'enterprising' organizations which attempt to redeploy into new markets (eg Dart et al, 2010), 3. the underappreciated role of unlabeled 'enterprising' activities which have long taken place in the sector, prior to any policy directives to be more entrepreneurial (Dees, Emerson and Economy, 2002), 4. the manners in which 'enterprising' can overshadow opportunities for both innovation and revenue generation more central to and accessible to the more 'traditional' elements of the operation (Oster, 2004, Bryson, 2008).