Antony Lerman

Antony Lerman (born 11 March 1946) is a British writer who specialises in the study of antisemitism, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, multiculturalism, and the place of religion in society. From 2006 to early 2009, he was Director of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research, a think tank on issues affecting Jewish communities in Europe. From December 1999 to 2006, he was Chief Executive of the Hanadiv Charitable Foundation, renamed the Rothschild Foundation Europe in 2007. He is a founding member of the Jewish Forum for Justice and Human Rights, and a former editor of Patterns of Prejudice, a quarterly academic journal focusing on the sociology of race and ethnicity.

Lerman served on the Runnymede Trust's Commission on Antisemitism in the early 1990s, and was appointed in 1998 to its Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain. He also sits on the advisory committee of the Imperial War Museum's Holocaust exhibition. He has regularly written for The Guardian.

Lerman spent much of his early life within the Habonim, and trained to become a madrikh (youth leader) at the Jewish Agency's Jerusalem Institute for Foreign Leaders. He became Britain's first mazkir, (foreign youth leader) aged 22. He made aliyah to Israel in 1970, and stayed there until 1973. From 1979 to 2009 he worked in Jewish organisations, mainly as a researcher for the Institute of Jewish Affairs , but also worked as a director of the Rothchild's Hanadiv Charity. When Lerman became an outspoken supporter of a "one-state solution" that would replace Israel with a Muslim-majority Palestinian state, his ties to established Jewish organisations frayed, and since his resigned from the JPPI in 2009 he has publicly advocated for pro-Arab/anti-Israel initiatives, often through editorial pieces in the Guardian's "Comment is Free" section.

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