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Photo: Morning Star JVL Statement in support of 9 December anti-racist protest Assemble 11.00 a.m. at Portland Place,...
JVL introduction Writing in Forward, Dove Kent demolishes the folly, post-Pittsburgh synagogue massacre, of clinging to...
JVL Introduction A reminder of the context of the Kindertransport and the role of the many – usually female –
JVL Introduction As the Quakers become the first Christian denomination in the U.K. to adopt a responsible investment...
JVL Introduction The battle against a resurgent far right is intensifying. David Rosenberg stresses here the need for...
JVL statement on Chris Williamson A number of student Labour clubs in London have joined what appears be a coordinated...
JVL Introduction We carry little about internal Israeli politics on our website, but we want to draw attention to...
JVL Introduction Writing in Forward, liberal Zionist Peter Beinart who opposes BDS nonetheless fiercely opposes calling...
JVL Introduction Paul Jonson’s suspension by his employer, Dudley Council, is a serious infringement of the right...
JVL Introduction On 21st November, the Austrian Presidency of the Council of the EU is organising what is billed as a...
JVL Introduction In this article in the Weekly Worker Carla Roberts argues that the witch-hunt against Corbyn and the...
JVL Introduction Rebecca Gould is the author of the scholarly article “Legal Form and Legal Legitimacy”. Here she...
JVL Introduction This essay is published in a special issue of the Marxist journal Historical Materialism, responding...
JVL Introduction Batya Ungar-Sargon, opinion editor of Forward in the United States, welcome the recent victory for...
JVL Introduction Stan Lee, Jewish superhero and co-creator of Marvel Comics superheroes including Spider-Man and the...
JVL Introduction It’s rare to praise the Jewish Chronicle, but praise for it and particularly for historian...
STATEMENT BY JEWISH VOICE FOR LABOUR IN RESPONSE TO FORMER PETERBOROUGH CITY COUNCILLORS FERRIS AND MAHABADI On...
JVL Introduction A deep current of American antisemitism is welling to the surface. George Soros, wealthy investor and...
JVL Introduction In late September we posted an article called Labour, antisemitism and the news – a Media Reform...
JVL Introduction Momentum posted a video of Tania Shaw talking about antisemitism and the left yesterday. It has...
JVL Introduction Thanks to the Jewish Socialists’ Group for its statement on Kristallnacht 1938, and its...
JVL Introduction JVL supports the call by trade union leaders, MPS and others for support for the 17 November National...
JVL Introduction In a follow-up to the post The suppressed Al Jazeera film on the US Israel lobby is now available, we...
JVL Introduction It is truly shocking to see that many Jewish organisations in the States are ignoring the...
JVL Introduction Rabbi Brant Rosen, pereceptive as always, offers a sharp response to those who conflate criticisms of...
JVL Introduction We reprint this statement from Free Speech On Israel about the Pittsburgh massacre which has been...
JVL Introduction American Jews are finding it hard to swallow Israel’s fascination with, and support for,...
JVL Introduction Jonathan Weisman, deputy Washington editor at The New York Times, writes: “Don’t kid yourself...
JVL Introduction The Electronic Intifada has finally got hold of the entire Al Jazeera film on the the Israel lobby in...
JVL Introduction Brian Klug has published a substantial article in Jewish Quarterly dealing with the furore over...
JVL Introduction It has long been suspected that many social media accounts peddling antisemitic statements are false...
JVL is calling on Jewish groups and individuals, and friends and allies, to unite in a Jewish bloc on the Unity...
JVL Introduction In the aftermath of the Pittsburgh massacre it didn’t take long for some to blame the left and...
JVL: allegations of being involved in or condoning antisemitism Allegations about JVL and individuals, often...
JVL Introduction A few days ago Rabbi Danny Rich, chief executive of Liberal Judaism, called for efforts to break the...
JVL Introduction Jane Eisner has been editor-in-chief of the Forward, the progressive American Jewish newspaper since...
JVL Introduction We reproduce the Jewish Socialists’ Group immediate response to the tragedy of the Pittsburgh...
JVL Introduction Zionism has meant many different things to many people over time. Although its founder, Theodor Herzl,...
JVL Introduction Annie Cohen of Jewdas was invited to give a talk on antisemitism to Dulwich and West Norwood...
Jewish Voice for Labour: We weren’t founded to “tackle antisemitism allegations in Labour” Jenny Manson...
JVL Introduction In an important article published as the Guardian’s long read, Daniel Trilling looks closely at...
For their 82nd birthday Frank and Ralph Land jumped out of a plane for charity For their 90th birthday they challenged...
JVL Introduction A new heavy-duty Israeli government offensive is underway to undermine BDS activity in Europe . A...
JVL Introduction Jay Blackwood’s Jewish Dissident blogspot has just published this model resolution and suggested...
JVL Introduction The rift between the Board of Deputies and the Charedi Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations is...
JVL Introduction H/t Jay Blackwood who has drawn attention to the recent CLPD model resolution calling for a right of...
JVL Introduction Mail Online apologises for alleging JVL leaders “disciplined for racism” On 15 October,...
JVL Introduction Rabbi Danny Rich, head of Liberal Judaism, attended the meeting last week where Jenny Manson was in...
JVL Introduction Breaking news: A proposal to censure the Senior Vice-President of the Board of Deputies Sheila Gewolb...
JVL Introduction We recently introducd the Media Reform Coaltion report, Labour, Antisemitism and the news which...
JVL Introduction We are delighted to report that the existing diffrences between Momentum and a number of other...
JVL Introduction The so-called fight against Islamism is leading to strange bedfellows, no more so that than of...
JVL Introduction Since our post yesterday with the JVL-supported CLPD slate for the NCC elections, a whole series of...
On 10 October Lambeth Council had adopting the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism on its agenda. Mike Cushman led a...
Official JVL statement, 11th October 2018 An inclusive list of pro-Corbyn candidates for a democratic and accountable...
JVL Introduction Since April 2015, an anonymous website, Canary Mission, has carried photographic profiles of mostly...
JVL Introduction The conflict between the Charedi community and the Board of Deputies deepens, with the Charedi...
JVL Introduction Our strapline derives from one of the mottos of the Jewish Bund, the radical Jewish movement which...
JVL Introduction It’s important that Labour party members and trade unionists should have first-hand experience...
JVL Introduction Learning the lessons of the thirties. David Rosenberg on resistance to fascism in Britain and how...
JVL Introduction This Media Lens story on the reception of the devastating report on media bias issued last week by the...
JVL Introduction The Zionist Union, an electoral alliance in Israel, was established in December 2014. It is dominated...
JVL introduction Mainstream media ignored the Liverpool bomb threat which led to the cancellation of the JVL screening...
JVL Introduction An important conference on State Racism, Collusion and Resistance will take place in London on...
JVL Introduction The Campaign for Socialism in Scotland is linked to Momentum but operates independently. Just as well,...
JVL Introduction The Guardian encourages its readers to become members, supporting it financially in order to...
JVL Introduction Labour, antisemitism and the news, a Media Reform Coalition report on systematic skewing in...
JVL Introduction Skwawkbox reports: “While the mainstream media have made misleading claims about the ‘police...
JVL introduction The post was found on Facebook. H/t Eyal Clyne. Just passing it on. Supporting Palestine. Photo:...
JVL Introduction Steven Fielding reflects on the fact that Labour isn’t doing better at turning itself into the...
JVL Introduction In the light of the IHRA document here in Britian it is important to show the extent to which the...
JVL Introduction The article below was written at short notice for a Verso ebook which it was hoped to publish during...
JVL Introduction A new and highly critical report on the mainstream media presentation of the antisemitism controversy...
JVL Introduction The Labour Party yesterday debated and voted overwhelmingly in favour of a motion of support for...
JVL Introduction We don’t know who was behind the hoax call that led to the screening of The Political Lynching...
For immediate release Bomb threat halts screening of film exposing attempts to silence pro-Corbyn left Police...
JVL Introduction Almost 300 citizens of Israel have signed a letter in support of Jeremy Corbyn’s political...
JVL Introduction A section of Jenny Formby’s conference speech on Monday 24 September, setting out Labour’s...
Declaration on what is – and what is not ANTISEMITIC MISCONDUCT This document has been prepared by Jewish Voice...
“For a more caring, humane politics, standing with all communities.” Help fund Jenny’s campaign! Jenny has...
JVL Introduction Julia Bard argues that the we need to move beyond the cynical campaign against the Labour leadership,...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Jewish Voice for Labour at party conference 2018 in Liverpool · JVL promotes...
JVL introduction Glyn Secker writes in the Morning Star in a personal capacity, suggesting that the Israel Lobby has...
JVL Introduction Solidarity from Israel with British activist Ewa Jasiewicz and Israeli activist Yonatan Shapira,...
JVL Introduction JVL as such has not taken a position on Brexit and the European Union. But we clearly care...
JVL Introduction Soundings has just publised an edited transcript of a discussion recorded in May 2018. It “seeks...
JVL Introduction We always say we should talk about the Jewish communities in Britain and not about a single Jewish...
Liverpool Conference offers Labour Party members and the wider movement a major opportunity to build mass support for...
JVL Introduction David Rosenberg continues his exposure of Tory support for the far right in Europe – and the Board...
JVL Introduction We welcome the establishment of a new grouping, the Black, Asian, Jewish Alliance (BAJA). Here...
JVL Introduction We recently reported on it in The suppression of the Al-Jazeera documentary on the US Israel...
Keep Corbyn rally, 2017. Liverpool Conference – a Launchpad for the Labour Left A Jewish Voice for Labour...
JVL Introduction David Rosenberg tells the almost forgotten story of the first time Mosley’s blackshirts, the...
JVL Introduction Richard Seymour gives an insightful and acerbic account of the Labour right’s campaign against...
A Yiddish new year postcard, large numbers of which were printed in the late C19. JVL wishes all our members,...
JVL Introduction Ian Saville, socialist magician, tries to conjure up a state founded to advance the aspirations of one...
JVL Introduction This motion, drafted before yesterday’s NEC decision was known, was passed at a branch in...
JVL Introduction Al Jazeera’s 4-part series “The Lobby” broadcast in January 2017, exposed Israeli...
JVL Introduction Yesterday the NEC agreed that: “We recommend that we adopt the IHRA in full, with all examples. This...
JVL Introduction We are repeatedly told that the Crown Prosecution Serice has “adopted” the IHRA...
JVL Introduction In advance of, and in anticipation of, the NEC decision to adopt the IHRA document with all its...
JVL Introduction Another fine analysis of the deficiencies of the IHRA document, in which Ash Sarkar points out that...
JVL Introduction Yesterday’s editorial in Ha’aretz, Israel’s leading liberal newspaper with the...
Submission to Labour Party Consultation on the Definition of Antisemitism Download a PDF of this submission...
JVL Introduction Robert A.H.Cohen asks Marie van der Zyl, President of the Board of Deputies, some interesting...
JVL Introduction The Jewish Socialists’ Group has just published its submission to the NEC, defending...
JVL Introduction Rebecca Ruth Gould’s long, scholarly article Legal Form and Legal Legitimacy: The IHRA...
JVL Introduction Richard Silverstein on the Mondoweiss blog responds to what he calls Rabbi Jonathan Sacks’s
JVL Introduction A wonderful letter from the Joint List in Israel in support of Jeremy Corbyn Israelis hold...
JVL Introduction Robert A.H.Cohen returns to Jonathan Sacks and themes he raised earlier, for example in his posting on...
JVL Introduction Geoffrey Robertson, a renowned legal scholar with expertise on human rights and free speech, was...
JVL Introduction Many groups and individuals have made submissions to the Labour Party NEC about the IHRA document and...
JVL Introduction Mehdi Hasan takes a look at some of Benjamin Netanyahu’s less savoury supporters. Benjamin...
JVL Introduction The Guardian’s moral compass on racism is illustrated on page 1 and 2 of its print edition on...
JVL Introduction Paul Rogers, openDemocracy’s international security adviser, looks at the threat posed by Jeremy...
JVL Introduction It is hard to take former Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks seriously in his presenting Jeremy Corbyn’s...
JVL Introduction The rumpus about antisemitism in the Labour party in recent months has been characterised by the...
JVL Introduction In a recent Guardian article Hannah Weisfeld and Alex Sobel suggest that Labour’s [alleged]
JVL Introduction Glyn Secker, secretary Jewish Voice for Labour (JVL), and Graham Bash, JVL committee and Briefing...
JVL introduction The one-sidedness of the mainstream media’s focus is staggering. How much racism on the right...
JVL Introduction A meditation on the role of racialisation of blond in Israeli society: “Are not the Israelis the...
JVL Introduction We urge our readers to respond to this appeal. Make sure your testimony is recorded and...
JVL introduction Robert A.H.Cohen, who blogs at Micah’s Paradigm Shift reviews March Ellis’s latest book...
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Back the NEC Code on Antisemitism YOU SHOULD BACK THE NEC CODE OF CONDUCT ON ANTISEMITISM Because it: Upholds freedom...
Jim Sheridan: Photo: Labour Party JVL statement In his post on the JVL Facebook page, reprinted below, David Rosenberg...
JVL introduction Veteran Israeli peace activist Uri Avnery has died. We reprint here the announcement from his...
JVL Introduction On the basis of their experience of the silencing of migrant and BAME communities in Britain, 84...