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All who oppose the Occupation must unite against Trump’s “Deal of the Century”!

All who oppose the Occupation must unite against Trump’s “Deal of the Century”!

31 January 2020: Statement by the Jewish Socialists' Group

Statement by the JewAll who oppose the Occupation must unite against Trump’s “Deal of the Century”!

31 January 2020

Vigil in support of North London’s Jewish Community

30 December 2019: The pavement in Hampstead was crammed with people who gathered in solidarity with the targets of a spate of antisemitic graffiti

Jews for a Labour victory

22 November 2019: Statement by Jewish Socialists on the coming UK General Election

Jewish Socialists’ Group Statement

16 September 2019: The Israeli General Election September 2019

Jewish antiracists speak out against the new PM

24 July 2019: Jewish Socialists’ Group statement on Boris Johnson becoming Prime Minister

Jewish Socialist No 72 on sale!

22 July 2019: The new issue of the magazine is back from the printers and is selling fast

Speak out against Trump

3 June 2019: Statement by the Jewish Socialists' Group

Jewish Bloc on National Demo: United Against Racism and Fascism

5 March 2019: Please join us. On Saturday 16th March the Jewish Bloc will meet at the corner of Curzon Street and Park Lane, London W1K 1RB from 11.45am - 12.15pm, and will then join the rally/march.

United in memory of the Holocaust

25 January 2019: Statement by Jewish Voice for Labour and the Jewish Socialists' Group

Remembering and resisting

21 January 2019

80 years after Kristallnacht

7 November 2018: On this anniversary of the terrifying 1938 attack on Jews across Nazi Germany, fascism is on the march again and we need to find new and powerful ways to resist, starting on 17th November

Pittsburgh Shooting

28 October 2018: Jewish Socialists’ Group statement on the attack against the Tree of Life synagogue on Saturday 27th October 2018, when the congregation had gathered for the weekly service.

Defend the Code, Defend Democracy

2 September 2018

Equal Rights, Not Apartheid!

25 July 2018: Statement by Jewish Socialists’ Group

Jewish Bloc at Trump Protests and Unity Protest Against the Far Right

8 July 2018: Details for the Jewish Bloc on 13th July at the Trump Protests and on 14th July at the anti-fascist protests

We must define antisemitism to fight it effectively

16 June 2018: The Jewish Socialists' Group is pleased to be one of the four Jewish organisations that endorsed this letter, signed by many prominent academics and others, which was published in The Guardian on 15th June 2018

Jewish Socialists back call for Inquiry into Tory Islamophobia

4 June 2018

Gaza: Stop the Massacre – Emergency Protest

15 May 2018: 15th May 2018 5:30 - 7pm Opposite 10 Downing Street, London

75th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

18 April 2018: Statement by the Jewish Socialists’ Group

Oppose antisemitism and malicious accusations by supporters of the Tory Party

26 March 2018: Jewish Socialists’ Group statement

How Salonika became disfigured by antisemitism

27 January 2018: Kevin Ovenden charts how the birthplace of the Greek working-class and socialist movement has come to be riven by the far right and rabid nationalist forces.

Remembering the horrors of Auschwitz

27 January 2018: On Holocaust Memorial Day, David Rosenberg looks back on his recent visit to the most notorious of the Nazi death camps and reflects on the collision of the past and an increasingly racist present

Jewish Socialists’ Group statement on Trump’s announced move of the US embassy to Jerusalem

6 December 2017

Condemnation is not enough. Cancel Trump’s visit now!

29 November 2017: Jewish Socialists' Group statement

Bundism – 120 years young!

20 October 2017: This weekend marks the anniversary of the formation of the Bund – largest and most significant Jewish socialist movement that has existed.

Jewish Socialists’ Group statement in support of Dr Moshe Machover

4 October 2017: Dr Moshe Machover – a lifelong Israeli socialist, anti-racist and anti-imperialist, who has lived in Britain since 1968 – has been expelled from the Labour Party.

Fight antisemitism and defend free speech

30 July 2017: Statement by the JSG on the uses and abuses of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance “definition” of antisemitism

Jewish Bloc – Not One Day More

29 June 2017: The Jewish Socialists' Group and jewdas are organising a Jewish Bloc to march together on 1st July on the national demonstration in London to get rid of this vicious Conservative government.

For social justice. For a Labour government on 8th June

1 June 2017: The Jewish Socialists’ Group is urging all its members and supporters to campaign in every way they can for a victory for the Labour Party on 8th June under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership.

The Westminster atrocity

28 March 2017: Two days after the atrocity in Westminster on 22nd March 2017, in which four people were killed and many more injured, David Rosenberg sent a message on behalf of the JSG to be read out at a Unity Vigil at Downing Street, organised by Stand Up To Racism

Stop Trump Protest Speech

22 February 2017: Speech given by Julia Bard of the Jewish Socialists' Group at the Stop Trump rally 20/2/17 at Parliament Square

Jews Against Trump

5 February 2017: The Jewish Socialists' Group marched in a Jewish bloc on the protest against Trump's anti-Muslim travel ban on 4th February 2017. Here is the text of the leaflet we handed out.

Stand with the majority and end the Occupation

4 February 2017: A week after Holocaust Memorial Day (when Donald Trump failed to mention the Jewish victims), and in the expectation of an imminent visit from Netanyahu to Britain, hundreds of Jewish people speak for the majority of Jews in signing an advert opposing the Occupation of Palestine.

Joint Advert on Israeli Settlements

23 January 2017: Please sign up to show your support for the UN Security Council Resolution 2334 against Israeli settlements

Jewish groups back call for inquiry into Israeli Embassy interference in UK democratic processes

18 January 2017: The Jewish Socialists' Group has joined other Jewish organisations that work for justice for Palestine in endorsing the following statement.

A call for unity in action against Netanyahu and Trump

4 January 2017: A statement to progressive Jewish groups locally and internationally from the Jewish Socialists’ Group in Britain

The election of Donald Trump and the rush to congratulate him by Britain’s Jewish community “leader”

12 November 2016: A statement from the Jewish Socialists’ Group

Statement on parliamentary report on antisemitism

17 October 2016: Tory-dominated Select Committee looks in wrong direction to see threats to minorities in Britain today, say Jewish Socialists

What Jewish Socialists are saying to the Labour Party’s Chakrabarti Inquiry

10 June 2016: The Jewish Socialists' Group has submitted this document to the Inquiry set up by Jeremy Corbyn in response to the accusations that the Labour Party is a hotbed of antisemitism. As an organisation with decades of experience of fighting racism and antisemitism alongside other minority communities, we believe we are well placed to add clarity and make recommendations to the Inquiry and wish them luck in reaching constructive outcomes.

Statement on “Labour’s problem with antisemitism”

28 April 2016: From the Jewish Socialists’ Group

Refugees Welcome Here!

10 September 2015: National Day of Action Saturday 12th September, London. Marble Arch to Parliament Square,

EJJP statement on Gaza Freedom Flotilla.

30 June 2015: Israeli forces have once again seized a boat and crew with civilian aid for the people of Gaza. Among those they have taken is Dror Feiler, chair of European Jews for Just Peace (EJJP). The Jewish Socialists' Group in Britain is affiliated to EJJP, and has endorsed this statement.

Tribute to Mike Marqusee

4 June 2015: a report on recent Conway Hall meeting paying tribute to Mike Marqusee, who died at beginning of this year.

Birthwrong

15 February 2015: jewdas trip to Spain!

Britain’s minorities must not be divided

2 February 2015: Statement by the Jewish Socialists' Group on Britain First, the Jewish community and anti-Muslim racism

Mike Marqusee 1953-2015

18 January 2015: Mike Marqusee, our friend and comrade, died peacefully on 13 January 2015, aged 61. The funeral will be on Tuesday 20 January, 2pm – 3.45pm at St Marylebone Crematorium, East End Road, Finchley, London N2 0RZ.

Aussie Jewish site asks do you know what JNF does with your money?

19 November 2014: Australian Jewish Democratic Society questions Jewish National Fund's "green" credentials and says the "charity" is engaged in ethnic cleansing.

Minnie Lansbury: Poplar Rebel – 7.30pm, Thursday 20th November

2 November 2014: Jewish Socialists' Group meeting At The Wesley (MIC), 81-103 Euston Street Street, London NW1 2EZ (nearest tubes Euston and Euston Square)

JSG Resolution on Peace and Freedom in the Middle East

8 July 2014: This resolution was adopted by the JSG's annual general meeting held on Sunday, July 6, 2014