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Black Lives Matter! Solidarity against racist brutality and discrimination
5 June 2020: Statement by the Jewish Socialists’ Group
No compromise with occupation and annexation
15 May 2020: Jewish Socialists' Group statement on Nakba Day/Israeli Independence Day 2020
To freedom, to health, to solidarity!
9 April 2020: A Passover message from the Jewish Socialists’ Group
All who oppose the Occupation must unite against Trump’s “Deal of the Century”!
31 January 2020: Statement by the Jewish Socialists' Group
All who oppose the Occupation must unite against Trump’s “Deal of the Century”!
31 January 2020: Statement by the Jewish Socialists' Group
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
Happy New Year שנה טובה
29 September 2019: The Jewish Socialists' Group wishes everyone a Happy New Year.
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
From London to Warsaw
13 April 2019: Jewish Socialists head to Poland to unite with anti-fascists
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
Jewish Socialist magazine
No 73 out now:
Jews, Corbyn and the General Election
Poland’s museum wars
Rise of the Joint List in Israel
Musician and teacher, Polina Shepherd
