JSG statement on Israel and Palestine

Stop the War!

End the Occupation!

Yes to a just peace; no to violence!

The Jewish Socialists' Group has a long record of supporting a just solution to the Israel Palestine conflict. We support unconditionally the independence and national right to self determination, including statehood, of both the Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs. We believe each can be fulfilled without prejudice to the rights of the other. Jerusalem should be the capital of both Israel and the Palestinian state.

We condemn the military occupation of Palestinian territory and the denial of basis human and civil rights to Palestinians. We call for the removal of Jewish settlements from territories occupied in 1967.

We believe that Israel ought to belong to all its citizens: Jews and Arabs, Ashkenazim and Sephardim, women and men and secular and religious people. We condemn discrimination against Arabs within Israel, both citizens and non-citizens, in land ownership, employment, education and access to welfare benefits. We support socialist and labour movement and peace forces within Israel striving for socialism and against war.

Israel claims it is acting on behalf of Jews worldwide. As Jews in the diaspora we wish to add our voices to those calling for an end to the occupation and for a just peace for both Israel and Palestine.

Links

Gush Shalom
Israeli Palestinian peace block (site in English and Hebrew)

B'tselem
The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories (site in English and Hebrew)

IPCRI
Israel Palestine Centre for Research and Information 

JustPeace UK
Just Peace UK is a mainly, but not exclusively, Jewish group; part of an international movement, working against the occupation and for a just peace between Israelis and Palestinians.

Jewish Voice for Peace
Through grassroots organising, education, advocacy and media outreach, Jewish Voice for Peaceworks to achieve a lastin peace that recognises the asporations of both Israelis and Palestinians for security and self-determination.

Jews for Justice for Palestinians (JFJFP)
A British group, providing information and organizing events in opposition to
Israeli policies that undermine the human rights of the Palestinian people.

Israel Coalition Against House Demolitions (ICAHD)
A non-violent, direct-action group originally established to oppose and resist Israeli demolition of Palestinian houses in the Occupied Territories.

Not In My Name
American-based predominantly Jewish organisation, committed to a peaceful and just resolution of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict that will provide safety, security and freedom for Jews, Palestinians, and all others living in the region.

Refuser Solidarity Network
Supports all who refuse to serve in the army of occupation in Israel/Palestine, including reservists who refuse to serve over the Green Line, and men and women conscripts who refuse to serve entirely in the IDF in their opposition to Occupation. 

Yesh Gvul (There is a Limit)
An Israeli peace group campaigning against the occupation by backing soldiers who refuse duties of a repressive or aggressive nature.  

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