Names of signers of this statement and instructions on how to sign listed below
We denounce smears of Anti-Semitism against Labour and Corbyn
We are Jews who do not live in the UK and have no direct experience with the Labour Party, but we can read and we are alarmed that some are trying to use false charges of anti-Semitism as a way to stop criticism of Israel, its treatment of Palestinians and its brutal violence against Palestinians and others.
We see nothing in the Labour Manifesto that threatens Jews
We have heard of no campaigns that Labour has taken or is considering that would be a threat to Jews
Labour has a whole section in its Manifesto about its plans to fight racism and religious discrimination
It has a procedure for taking complaints about racism and anti-Semitism and it investigates accusations and has expelled people from membership for anti-Semitism allegations.
A celebrated attack on Corbyn by Chief Rabbi Mirvis was devoid of facts and instead complained of the Labour Party “culture”. Its one detailed charge, that there are 130 outstanding complaints of anti-Semitism against Labour Party members comes from a Labour Party group affiliated with the World Zionist Organization, hardly an objective news source.
A detailed examination of all the anti-Semitism accusations against Labour done by a group of UK Jews supporting Labour found the charges were “smoke without fire”.
As for what Jeremy Corbyn has done (as opposed to words taken out of context) his record is sterling, going back to the time he organized the defense of Jewish-populated Wood Green from a National Front rally.
John Bercow, the Jewish former Conservative MP and Speaker of the House of Commons, testifies that, having known Corbyn over two decades, he has ‘never detected a whiff of antisemitism’ about him.
This is a political fight, not a matter of a racist attack on religion or ethnicity.
Right-wing Jews who hate Corbyn for his support for Palestinian rights and Right-wing non-Jews who hate Corbyn for his proposed social reforms are united in spreading the “Labour anti-Semitism” slander.
If false charges of anti-Semitism are used by the Right in successfully destroying a candidacy in the UK, they’ll do it again and again worldwide.
We feel obligated to make this known.
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If you’d like to sign on to this statement send your full name and line of identification to: [email protected]
Note: Words in gray above are links to documents or sites
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Disclaimer: organizations or institutions mentioned are only for identification purposes
Signers:
Marcia Almey
Shelly Altman
Chair of Jewish Voice for Peace New Haven
Julia Barnett
Toronto, Canada
Jan Bauman
San Rafael, California
Gabrielle Benhamouda-Muller
Antibes
France
Medea Benjamin
CODEPINK Co-founder
Ada Bilu
Jerusalem, yoga teacher, Israeli citizenship
Edgar Blaustein
Economist
France
Elizabeth Block
Toronto, Canada
Member of Independent Jewish Voices
Prof. Daniel Boyarin
Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture, UC Berkeley
Lenni Brenner
anti-Zionist author
Robert Brenner
UCLA
Mark Cramer
Clichy, France
author of Old Man on a Green Bike: Chronicles of a Self-Serving Environmentalist
James Cohen
Institute of the English-Speaking World, University of Paris 3 (Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Lynn Coville
JVP New Haven
Ajay Singh Chaudhary
Executive Director
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
Molly Crabapple
artist, author
Lawrence Davidson
Professor Emeritus, West Chester University
West Chester, Pennsylvania
James Deutsch
MD PhD FRCPC
University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine
Wolfe Erlichman
Independent Jewish Voices, Canada
Anat Even
filmmaker, Tel-aviv Jaffa, Israel
Samuel Farber
author, professor Brooklyn college (emeritus)
Sonia Fayman
UJFP France
Dorothy Field
Independent Jewish Voices
Judih Fieldstone
Chevy Chase, MD
David Finkel,
managing editor, Against the Current magazine (USA)
Joel Finkel
retired, Chicago, IL
Arie Finkelstein
Paris
Jesse Franzblau
Jewish American
Immigrant Rights Activists
Jean Gagne
Montreal Quebec Canada
Active volunteer for Canada's New Democrats
Supporter, Independent Jewish Voices Canada Montreal Chapter
Cheryl Gaster, LL.B., C. Med
Member, Independent Jewish Voices Canada
Joseph Gerson (PhD)
President, Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security
Cy Gonick
Publisher, Canadian Dimension magazine
Guy Bollag
Zurich, Switzerland
Larry Haiven
Professor Emeritus
Saint Mary's University
Avishay Halavy
Tel Aviv
Israel
Irit Halavy
Tel aviv
Israel
Jaap Hamburger
Chairman
A Different Jewish Voice, Amsterdam NL
Z. Havkin
Gyvatayim, Israel
Stanley Heller
TV news magazine host, author
Martin Hijmans
journalist and blogger
Amsterdam
Louis Hirsch
member Jewish Voice for Peace
Jane Hirschmann
co-founder of Jews Say No, NYC
for the 'Jewish Socialist Bund'
abraham Weizfeld PhD
Montréal, Nablus
Louis Kampf
Professor Emeritus MIT
Cambridge MA
USA
Leonard J Lapon
Retired High School Teacher
Andrea Levy
coordinating editor, Canadian Dimension magazine
Leslie Lomas
Boulder, CO, USA
Henry Naftali Lowi,
Vice-President
United Jewish People’s Order - Canada (for identification only)
Dr. Judith Norman
Jewish Voice for Peace, San Antonio, Texas USA
Anat Matar
Tel Aviv University, Israel.
Miriam Meir
Independent Jewish Voices Canada
Arthur Milner
Playwright, Calgary Alberta
Savvas( Sabetai) Michael-Matsas
writer and secretary of the Workers Revolutionary Party (EEK) of Greece
Alan Myerson
Film and Television Director
Laura Myerson
Jewish Voice for Peace
Michael Myerson
Cortlandt Manor, NY
Joan Nestle
writer and archivist
Michael Novick
Anti-Racist Action Los Angeles
Leo Panitch
Senior Scholar
Emeritus Professor of Politics
York University
Dorit Peleg
writer
Tel Aviv, Israel
Michal Peleg
writer living in Tel-aviv, Israel
Rob Prince
University of Denver Korbel School of International Studies - Retired
Peter Rachleff
Executive Director, East Side Freedom Library
Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
Dania Rajendra
Queens, NY
Naomi Rankin
member Edmonton Peace Council
Edmonton, Alberta Canada
Sheldon Ranz
Director of Special Projects, Social Democrats USA
Robert Reuel Naiman,
co-founder, Just Foreign Policy
Herman Rosenfeld
Retired Canadian Auto Workers union staff person
Eleanor Roffman, Ed.D.
Professor Emerita
Lesley University
Raya Rotem
Jerusalem, pensioner, Israeli citizenship
Marty Roth
Professor of English, University of Minnesota
Martha Roth
Independent Jewish Voices-Canada
Reuben Roth, Ph.D.
Associate Professor,
Workplace & Labour Studies Program
School of Northern & Community Studies
Laurentian University
Sudbury, Canada
Independent Jewish Voices-Canada
Herzl Schubert
Tel-Aviv
Sid Shniad
founding member
Independent Jewish Voices Canada
Richard Silverstein
Tikun Olam
Erik Sperling
Executive Director
Just Foreign Policy
Alex Weinstein
architect
Suzi Weissman
Saint Mary's College of CA; Jacobin Radio
Suzanne Weiss
Author, Holocaust to Resistance: My Journey
Canada
Julie Wornan
Environmental activist, author of "Let’s Save our Planet"
We are Jews who do not live in the UK and have no direct experience with the Labour Party, but we can read and we are alarmed that some are trying to use false charges of anti-Semitism as a way to stop criticism of Israel, its treatment of Palestinians and its brutal violence against Palestinians and others.
We see nothing in the Labour Manifesto that threatens Jews
We have heard of no campaigns that Labour has taken or is considering that would be a threat to Jews
Labour has a whole section in its Manifesto about its plans to fight racism and religious discrimination
It has a procedure for taking complaints about racism and anti-Semitism and it investigates accusations and has expelled people from membership for anti-Semitism allegations.
A celebrated attack on Corbyn by Chief Rabbi Mirvis was devoid of facts and instead complained of the Labour Party “culture”. Its one detailed charge, that there are 130 outstanding complaints of anti-Semitism against Labour Party members comes from a Labour Party group affiliated with the World Zionist Organization, hardly an objective news source.
A detailed examination of all the anti-Semitism accusations against Labour done by a group of UK Jews supporting Labour found the charges were “smoke without fire”.
As for what Jeremy Corbyn has done (as opposed to words taken out of context) his record is sterling, going back to the time he organized the defense of Jewish-populated Wood Green from a National Front rally.
John Bercow, the Jewish former Conservative MP and Speaker of the House of Commons, testifies that, having known Corbyn over two decades, he has ‘never detected a whiff of antisemitism’ about him.
This is a political fight, not a matter of a racist attack on religion or ethnicity.
Right-wing Jews who hate Corbyn for his support for Palestinian rights and Right-wing non-Jews who hate Corbyn for his proposed social reforms are united in spreading the “Labour anti-Semitism” slander.
If false charges of anti-Semitism are used by the Right in successfully destroying a candidacy in the UK, they’ll do it again and again worldwide.
We feel obligated to make this known.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
If you’d like to sign on to this statement send your full name and line of identification to: [email protected]
Note: Words in gray above are links to documents or sites
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Disclaimer: organizations or institutions mentioned are only for identification purposes
Signers:
Marcia Almey
Shelly Altman
Chair of Jewish Voice for Peace New Haven
Julia Barnett
Toronto, Canada
Jan Bauman
San Rafael, California
Gabrielle Benhamouda-Muller
Antibes
France
Medea Benjamin
CODEPINK Co-founder
Ada Bilu
Jerusalem, yoga teacher, Israeli citizenship
Edgar Blaustein
Economist
France
Elizabeth Block
Toronto, Canada
Member of Independent Jewish Voices
Prof. Daniel Boyarin
Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture, UC Berkeley
Lenni Brenner
anti-Zionist author
Robert Brenner
UCLA
Mark Cramer
Clichy, France
author of Old Man on a Green Bike: Chronicles of a Self-Serving Environmentalist
James Cohen
Institute of the English-Speaking World, University of Paris 3 (Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Lynn Coville
JVP New Haven
Ajay Singh Chaudhary
Executive Director
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
Molly Crabapple
artist, author
Lawrence Davidson
Professor Emeritus, West Chester University
West Chester, Pennsylvania
James Deutsch
MD PhD FRCPC
University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine
Wolfe Erlichman
Independent Jewish Voices, Canada
Anat Even
filmmaker, Tel-aviv Jaffa, Israel
Samuel Farber
author, professor Brooklyn college (emeritus)
Sonia Fayman
UJFP France
Dorothy Field
Independent Jewish Voices
Judih Fieldstone
Chevy Chase, MD
David Finkel,
managing editor, Against the Current magazine (USA)
Joel Finkel
retired, Chicago, IL
Arie Finkelstein
Paris
Jesse Franzblau
Jewish American
Immigrant Rights Activists
Jean Gagne
Montreal Quebec Canada
Active volunteer for Canada's New Democrats
Supporter, Independent Jewish Voices Canada Montreal Chapter
Cheryl Gaster, LL.B., C. Med
Member, Independent Jewish Voices Canada
Joseph Gerson (PhD)
President, Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security
Cy Gonick
Publisher, Canadian Dimension magazine
Guy Bollag
Zurich, Switzerland
Larry Haiven
Professor Emeritus
Saint Mary's University
Avishay Halavy
Tel Aviv
Israel
Irit Halavy
Tel aviv
Israel
Jaap Hamburger
Chairman
A Different Jewish Voice, Amsterdam NL
Z. Havkin
Gyvatayim, Israel
Stanley Heller
TV news magazine host, author
Martin Hijmans
journalist and blogger
Amsterdam
Louis Hirsch
member Jewish Voice for Peace
Jane Hirschmann
co-founder of Jews Say No, NYC
for the 'Jewish Socialist Bund'
abraham Weizfeld PhD
Montréal, Nablus
Louis Kampf
Professor Emeritus MIT
Cambridge MA
USA
Leonard J Lapon
Retired High School Teacher
Andrea Levy
coordinating editor, Canadian Dimension magazine
Leslie Lomas
Boulder, CO, USA
Henry Naftali Lowi,
Vice-President
United Jewish People’s Order - Canada (for identification only)
Dr. Judith Norman
Jewish Voice for Peace, San Antonio, Texas USA
Anat Matar
Tel Aviv University, Israel.
Miriam Meir
Independent Jewish Voices Canada
Arthur Milner
Playwright, Calgary Alberta
Savvas( Sabetai) Michael-Matsas
writer and secretary of the Workers Revolutionary Party (EEK) of Greece
Alan Myerson
Film and Television Director
Laura Myerson
Jewish Voice for Peace
Michael Myerson
Cortlandt Manor, NY
Joan Nestle
writer and archivist
Michael Novick
Anti-Racist Action Los Angeles
Leo Panitch
Senior Scholar
Emeritus Professor of Politics
York University
Dorit Peleg
writer
Tel Aviv, Israel
Michal Peleg
writer living in Tel-aviv, Israel
Rob Prince
University of Denver Korbel School of International Studies - Retired
Peter Rachleff
Executive Director, East Side Freedom Library
Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
Dania Rajendra
Queens, NY
Naomi Rankin
member Edmonton Peace Council
Edmonton, Alberta Canada
Sheldon Ranz
Director of Special Projects, Social Democrats USA
Robert Reuel Naiman,
co-founder, Just Foreign Policy
Herman Rosenfeld
Retired Canadian Auto Workers union staff person
Eleanor Roffman, Ed.D.
Professor Emerita
Lesley University
Raya Rotem
Jerusalem, pensioner, Israeli citizenship
Marty Roth
Professor of English, University of Minnesota
Martha Roth
Independent Jewish Voices-Canada
Reuben Roth, Ph.D.
Associate Professor,
Workplace & Labour Studies Program
School of Northern & Community Studies
Laurentian University
Sudbury, Canada
Independent Jewish Voices-Canada
Herzl Schubert
Tel-Aviv
Sid Shniad
founding member
Independent Jewish Voices Canada
Richard Silverstein
Tikun Olam
Erik Sperling
Executive Director
Just Foreign Policy
Alex Weinstein
architect
Suzi Weissman
Saint Mary's College of CA; Jacobin Radio
Suzanne Weiss
Author, Holocaust to Resistance: My Journey
Canada
Julie Wornan
Environmental activist, author of "Let’s Save our Planet"
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