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IJV Statement on Post-Referendum Racism
Leave a commentJuly 13, 2016 by IJV
We in IJV deplore the upsurge of racism towards minority groups after the Referendum result, and the unwelcoming atmosphere fostered …
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IJV Submission to the Shami Chakrabarti Inquiry
Leave a commentJune 15, 2016 by IJV
The Independent Jewish Voices Steering Group has made a submission to the Shami Chakrabarti Inquiry into antisemitism and other forms …
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Press Release: IJV TO MAKE SUBMISSION TO LABOUR ANTISEMITISM INQUIRY
1May 18, 2016 by IJV
Following recent allegations of antisemitism in the Labour Party, Independent Jewish Voices (IJV) welcomes the launch of the independent Inquiry …
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IJV Statement on Allegations of Antisemitism in the Labour Party
10May 1, 2016 by IJV
We are concerned at the proliferation in recent weeks of sweeping allegations of pervasive antisemitism within the Labour Party. Some …
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IJV Presents: Rabbis Speak Out, 1 October 2015, 8 PM, Hampstead Town Hall
2September 8, 2015 by IJV
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IJV’s Equal Rights Conference: positive, principled, pragmatic and politically-focused
1March 30, 2015 by Antony Lerman
Anthony Isaacs, a founding member of IJV, reports on the conference held at Birkbeck University of London 14-16 March 2015 …
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Blak Alcott on the Equal Rights for All Conference
Leave a commentMarch 27, 2015 by IJV
Blake Alcott is the Director of ODS in Palestine and a long-standing defender of Palestinian rights. A vocal participant, he …
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No, it isn’t time for the Jews to leave Europe
Leave a commentMarch 27, 2015 by Antony Lerman
‘Is it time for the Jews to leave Europe?’ is the title of the cover story in the April issue …
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Audio of #ERFA2015 now available
1March 22, 2015 by IJV
IJV would like to thank all our participants for contributing to a frank and profoundly radical discussion on how to …
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Resisting Despair
Leave a commentFebruary 20, 2015 by IJV
Despair, surely, is what Israeli policy has been resolutely instilling in Palestinians from the beginning. It is pointless to resist! Abandon any dreams of justice and sovereignty. This is why, for many Palestinians, resistance is simply about surviving. It is what Eyad himself emphasized, observing ‘the long path of humiliation and despair’ that lies behind the creation of a so-called ‘terrorist’: ‘the struggle of many Palestinians is how not to become suicide bombers’, he wrote thirteen years ago. [3] He tirelessly sought to prevent such destructive martyrdom, standing implacably against all forms of violence, whether from Palestinians or the infinitely deadlier modes of Israeli state violence: that ‘eye for eyelash’, as Schlaim put it. Eyad liked to insist that the Israelis and Palestinians needed each other: ‘for only the Palestinians can release Israel from its moral guilt, from all that has gone wrong since those first Zionist dreams to the nightmare of living in a country permanently at war with its neighbours; while only the Israelis can negotiate a just peace with Palestine, allowing them control over their own affairs and thereby laying the basis for security, freedom and dignity for both sides’.[4]