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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 ANTISEMITIC MISCONDUCT What it is – and what it is not This document has been prepared by Jewish...
“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...
JVL Introduction The standfirst to this openDemocracy article says it all: ‘Of course powerful people organise...
JVL Introduction Feelings of fury at Margaret Hodge’s recent remarks are spreading. The comparison she made –
Back the NEC Code on Antisemitism Join us to campaign to protect Labour Party members’ freedom of...
JVL Introduciton In the Guardian today Gary Younge offers Jeremy advice on the speech he badly needs to make in...
JVL Introduction In a powerful statement Unite General Secretary Len McCluskey takes critics of Corbyn to task –
JVL Introduction Huda Elmi, a grassroots Momentum-supported candidate for the NEC, writes in the Independent that...
JVL Introduction It’s unusual to congratulate the BBC on anything these days, but this report on the...
JVL Introduction JVL member Jay Blackwood captures the feelings of many in his latest Jewish Dissident blog about the...
JVL Introduction Below is the text of an open letter calling on the NEC not to adopt all eleven examples in the...
JVL Introduction NY brit expat, historian of political and economic thought and life-long political activist, blogs...
JVL Introduction The Morning Star editorial on Sunday 12th August says what needs to be said. Israeli citizens...
JVL Introduction This Telegraph article from 2014 shows that the Jewish community’s disaffection with Labour...
JVL Introduction Justin Schlosberg, media researcher and activist, reminds us that a particular hatred expressed by...
7th August 2018 For the attention: Tony Hall, Director-General, BBC Francesca Unsworth, Director, Director of News...
JVL Introduction Joseph Finlay says it’s time to cool things down. The war of attrition helps only antisemites...
JVL Introduction Asa Winstanley of Lobby Watch explores further evidence of the Israeli government’s hasbara...
JVL Introduction In this article from the American Jewish Forward, Annie Cohen argues that it would benefit a Jewish...
JVL Introduction British journalist Jonathan Cook, based long-term in Nazareth, reflects on the crisis over antisemtism...
JVL Introduction We publish here an article submitted to us by Jon Berry saying that outrage is not enough, we need...
JVL Introduction The Canary reports on today’s protest at the BBC about its biased coverage of the Hodge...
JVL Introduction In this article for the London Review of Books Amjad Iraqi puts the move to outlaw BDS, now well...
JVL Introduction Courtesy of Skwawkbox, here is the communication from Jennie Formby to Margaret Hodge, stating that...
JVL Introduction Leon Rosselson pulls no punches as he evaluates Jonathan Freedland’s most recent attack on...
JVL Introduction Two letters published in the Guardian: Anthony Isaacs argues that Corbyn needs “a proactive,...
JVL Introduction As the crisis in the Labour party over accusations of antisemitism continues to rage, despite Jeremy...
JVL Introduction This is a piece. No comment! Netanyahu is antisemitic, according to IHRA definitions Jewdas 5...
JVL Introduction Hats off to the Canary for an extraordinary scoop! EXCLUSIVE: Jewish News editor slams his paper’s...
JVL Introduction David Rosenberg captures the feeling of many when he writes “The self-proclaimed and...
Jewish Voice for Peace Board of Trustees Responds to Attacks on Jeremy Corbyn and Labour Party Press Release,...
JVL Introduction The row over antisemitism has been made into one of who is to lead the Labour party. In this article...
JVL Introduction Former Labour Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott writes: “I felt compelled to say I utterly...
JVL Introduction Graham Bash tells a typically Jewish story – growing up with family arguments about the politics of...
JVL Introduction Veteran peace activist, Uri Avnery, is the well-known elder statesman of Gush Shalom, a left Zionist...
JVL Introduction Barnaby Raine writes about the incendiary rhetoric we are witnessing against Labour and urges us to...
JVL Introduction In the face of a devastating wave of hostility, Jeremy Corbyn has issued a wide-ranging statement...
JVL Introduction “How would it look”, David Rosenberg writes, “if an example came to light of a...
JVL Introduction Mark Steel is on good form as he pillories the Tories for failing to see antisemitism when it stares...
JVL Introduction The Board of Deputies of British Jews constantly presents itself as “the voice of the Jewish...
Kenneth S. Stern, giving evidence to the US Congress on the IHRA defintion. November 2017 The man who drafted...
JVL Introduction Ben White explores “mission creep”, showing how the IHRA definition keeps being used to...
JVL introduction Those of us involved over the years in European Jews for a Just peace, knew and admired Auschwitz...
The Momentum call to drop Pete Willsman is cowardly and shameful and stupid. Willsman is no antisemite. Not voting for...
JVL Introduction David Rosenberg inveighs – thoughtfully – against the Thought Police imposing a form of...
JVL introduction Phil Edwards writes with his usual forensic precision about the current row over the IHRA...
JVL introduction British Palestinians write in furious protest at how, in all the furore around the Labour party...
JVL introduction Jewish Labour Party veteran Walter Wolfgang, with 70 years membership to his name, has defended...
JVL introduction Glyn Secker writing in the Morning Star on antisemitism and the emperor’s new clothes Labour,...
JVL introduction Robin Lustig, long-time Middle-East correspondent, describes himself as a “pretty unlikely...
JVL Introduction Developments in Barnet show that fears voiced about the abuse of the IHRA definition to suppress...
JVL Introduction Thsi article by Matan Kaminer appears in +972 Magazine. In it he argues that “The real threat...
JVL introduction In the current febrile atmosphere – where the Labour party is under siege for even having deigned to...
JVL introduction Antisemitism thrives in some environments more than others and we think it reasonable to explore to...