Em Hilton

Em Hilton is the International Policy Director at Diaspora Alliance, and a co-founder of Na’amod: British Jews Against Occupation and Apartheid. Her forthcoming memoir, “It Was Promised to Me,” will be published in Spring 2028.

Recent Articles

The Nova Exhibition in Washington, D.C., June 14, 2025. (Ted Eytan/CC BY-SA 4.0)

The Nova Exhibition aims to return the world to October 7 — and keep us there

Borrowing heavily from Holocaust memorialization, the mobile exhibit wants visitors to identify with Israeli festivalgoers and forget everything else.

By Em Hilton August 4, 2026

People gather at a memorial at Bondi Beach to mourn those killed in a mass shooting attack, in Sydney, Australia, Dec. 15, 2025. (Marcin Cholewinski/ZUMA Press Wire)

After the Bondi massacre, we don’t have the luxury to grieve silently

Before the blood had dried, the deadliest attack on Australian Jews was being used to justify repressing Palestine solidarity and retribution against Muslims.

By Em Hilton December 15, 2025

The rap duo Bob Vylan performs at the Beautiful Days music festival, in Escot Park, England, Aug. 21, 2022. (Neil Melville-Kenney/CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

The UK can excuse genocide, but draws the line at festival chants

A musician’s anti-IDF slogan isn’t what is making British Jews less safe. The escalating repression of Palestine solidarity as ‘antisemitic’ is.

By Em Hilton July 1, 2025

Maccabi Tel Aviv fans in the arrivals hall of Ben Gurion Airport, near Tel Aviv, November 8, 2024. (Jonathan Shaul/Flash90)

Weaponizing Jewish fear, from Tel Aviv to Amsterdam

Rhetoric about ‘pogroms’ and ‘Jew hunts’ aims to obscure reality by generating mass hysteria — which can then be used to advance a far-right agenda.

By Em Hilton November 15, 2024

Pro-Israel and pro-Palestine protesters face off as thousands march in the streets of London against the celebration of the 100th anniversary for the Balfour Declaration, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu joining the event, November 4, 2017. (Ahmad Al-Bazz/Activestills)

Inventing the new antisemitism

Israel and its acolytes have long pushed the agenda that anti-Zionism is a form of anti-Jewish racism. A new book shows how this endeavor came at the expense of Palestinians and diaspora Jews alike.

By Em Hilton January 16, 2023

Members of the Indian community in Israel celebrate during an event celebrating 25 years of relations between Israel and India, during an official visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Tel Aviv, July 5, 2017. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

The violent phobias that bind Hindutva and Zionism

Journalist Azad Essa speaks to +972 about the authoritarian ties between India and Israel, and the myths that underlie their expansionist ideologies.

By Em Hilton November 9, 2022

Protesters march in support of indigenous rights at the Invasion Day rally in Melbourne, Australia, January 26, 2020. (Flickr/Matt Hrkac/CC BY 2.0)

You can’t oppose settler colonialism in Australia while endorsing it in Palestine

Australia’s Jewish establishment claims to champion indigenous rights, yet its fealty to Zionism predicates Jewish safety on denying Palestinian liberation.

By Em Hilton August 31, 2022

Pro-Israel activists stage a counter-demonstration during Quds Day, an annual event affiliated with the Iranian government to express support for the Palestinian cause, London, United Kingdom June 10, 2018.

British Jews, we cannot afford to align ourselves with the far right

The outcry over the protests against Ambassador Tzipi Hotovely shows how crucial it is to resist attempts to conflate criticism of Israel with antisemitism.

By Em Hilton November 16, 2021

Launching the 2019 Labour Party General Election campaign (Jeremy Corbyn/Flickr)

Labour Party infighting exploited British Jews. How do we rebuild?

A leaked dossier reveals how Labour factions hindered the party's antisemitism responses in order to undermine Jeremy Corbyn. British Jews must revive partnerships with marginalized groups to end this manipulation.

By Em Hilton and Yael Shafritz April 26, 2020