P.O.Box 46081, London W9 2ZF jfjusticefp@yahoo.co.uk
You can download a copy of our brochure here
View our list of signatories
To add your name, please email signatures@jfjfp.org
"That which is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour.
That
is the whole Torah, the rest is commentary."
RABBI HILLEL
DO YOU BELIEVE THAT...
- Peace in the Middle East will only come about with mutual recognition and respect and must be seen as just by both sides.
- Peace requires the end of illegal occupation and settlement.
- Violence against civilians is unacceptable.
- Israel's policies in the West Bank and Gaza are breeding hatred and resentment.
- It is crucial that Jews speak out for Palestinians' human rights.
- The values of Israeli society have been corrupted by the Israeli State's human-rights abuses.
- A lasting peace must be seen as just by both sides.
- Britain, the EU, the USA, Russia and the UN must be persuaded to implement UN resolutions on Palestine.
IF YOUR ANSWER IS 'YES' then link up with over a thousand other Jews in Britain who make up Jews for Justice for Palestinians
The Torah teaches: 'Justice,
justice, you shall pursue' (Deuteronomy 16:20).
To secure a lasting settlement to the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis so they can live in peace and security, thrive side by side, and co-operate together, Jews today are obligated to pursue justice on behalf of both peoples.”
RABBI ELIZABETH TIKVAH SARAH
WHO ARE WE?
Jews for Justice for Palestinians is a network of Jews who are British or live in Britain, practising and secular, Zionist and not. We oppose Israeli policies that undermine the livelihoods, human, civil and political rights of the Palestinian people.
We support the right of Israelis to live in freedom and security within Israel's 1967 borders.
As well as organising to ensure that Jewish opinions critical of Israeli policy are heard in Britain, we extend support to Palestinians trapped in the spiral of violence and repression. We believe that such actions are important in countering antisemitism and the claim that opposition to Israel’s destructive policies is itself antisemitic.
We cooperate with other organisations on specific issues without necessarily endorsing everything they do.
We work to build world-wide Jewish opposition to the Israeli Occupation, with like-minded groups around the world and are a founding member of European Jews for a Just Peace, a federation of Jewish groups in ten European countries whose principles include:
- condemnation of all violence against civilians in the conflict, no matter by whom it is carried out.
- recognition of Israel's 1967 'green line' borders;
- commitment to the Palestinians' right to a state in the territories currently occupied by Israel in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza;
- calling on Israel to acknowledge its part in the creation of the Palestinian refugee problem and its obligation to negotiate a just, fair and practical resolution of the issue.
"Israel must withdraw from all the settlements and dismantlethe wall within Palestinian territory.
Then, perhaps, we may at last see some justice for Palestinians."
MIRIAM KARLIN OBE
In mid 2006, our over twelve hiundred signatories included five rabbis; 99 professors (including four Fellows of the Royal Society and two fellows of the British Association); 107 medical and academic doctors; three OBEs; several OBEs, CBEs and MBEs, three knights and one Member of Parliament.
The list includes Geoffrey Bindman, Stephen Fry, Eric Hobsbawm, Nicolas Kent, Mike Leigh, Miriam Margolyes, Jonathan Miller, Susie Orbach, Harold Pinter, Jacqueline Rose, Alexei Sayle, Antony Sher, Gillian Slovo, Tom Stoppard, Janel Suzman and Zoë Wanamaker.
"Sharon cannot be allowed to speak for British Jews — he does not speak in our name.
Jews for Justice for Palestinians gives expression to the many alternative views within the community."
MICHAEL ROSEN
All our signatories can be found at http://www.jfjfp.org/signatories.htm
What we do
"Jews for Justice for Palestinians is concerned for justice for them—and us!
Without justice for Palestinians, there is no hope for Israel."
RABBI JEFFREY NEWMAN
We support Israeli peace and human-rights organizations morally and financially including:
Bat Shalom (Women for Peace), Breaking the Silence,
Courage to Refuse, Gush Shalom (Peace Bloc),
the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD),
Machsom (Checkpoint) Watch, Physicians for Human Rights,
Rabbis for Human Rights, Ta'ayush (Arab-Jewish Partnership),
Yesh Gvul (There is a Limit) and Zochrot (Remembrance).
We organise meetings across the UK and produce information on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—both printed and web-based at www.jfjfp.org
We assist Palestinian peace and humanitarian organisations including the International Solidarity Movement, United Medical Relief Committees and the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme.
We channel humanitarian aid through the British Shalom Salaam Trust, an independent grant-giving charity.
We provide practical support to the Palestinian economy: planting olive trees, supporting Zaytoun, a fair-trade organisation marketing Palestinian olive oil and encouraging fact-finding trips to the area.
We are helping to build a broad-based End the Occupation campaign in the UK and worldwide.
We lobby on issues relating to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, often in association with Palestinians.
The work that Jews for Justice for Palestinians has done over the last few years is of profound importance for the human rights of Palestinians and Israelis and for reaffirming the long association between Jewish people and the struggle for human rights everywhere.”
FRANCESCA KLUG OBE
HOW YOU CAN HELP
- Encourage Jewish friends, relatives and colleagues to join our growing list of signatories.
- Join one of our local or special interest groups. Currently there are groups in Manchester, Brighton, Bristol, Oxford, Hertfordshire, Leicester, Norwich, the West Midlands, Liverpool, Edinburgh and Glasgow. There is also a Writers Against the Occupation group, an Academic network, a Therapists Group, which supports counselling work in Palestine, and Jewish Students for Justice for Palestinians.
- Contribute to our lively letter-writing group.
- Participate in fundraising for humanitarian and campaigning activities.
- Help distribute leaflets and posters about our activities and events and issues in Israel-Palestine.
- Get involved in organising meetings in your synagogue or area –JfJfP can supply speakers.
- Lobby your MP to speak out against the Occupation.
For further information visit www.jfjfp.org e-mail info@jfjfp.org or write to JFJFP, PO Box 46081, London W9 2ZF
Students can contact the student group at students@jfjfp.org
Organisation
Everyone who joins as an individual is added to the general e-mail list and receives mailouts about once a week - but ask if you don't want to receive them. If you are not on email, please send us 5 stamped SAEs for our monthly postal mailouts.
There is no membership fee, but donations to support our work will be gratefully received. We hold regular meetings in London, Manchester and Liverpool and new groups are starting up in Bristol and Leicester.
We welcome feedback and comments on this website.
page last updated 29 July, 2006
