Letter signed by 500 members of UK Jewish Community: Not In Our Name – Independent Jewish Voices UK

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Independent Jewish Voices UK          July 26, 2018

Not In Our Name

This week, the Jewish Chronicle, Jewish News and Jewish Telegraph are publishing the same front page, headed “United we stand” on what they describe as the community’s anger over “Labour’s anti-Semitism row” and its “refusal to adopt the full International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of anti-Semitism”.

The heading suggests that these papers speak for the whole community. We, the undersigned members of the UK Jewish community, take strong exception to the statement and disassociate ourselves from it. Whatever our views on the Labour Party and its handling of the antisemitism allegations, we consider that the demand to “implement IHRA in full or be seen by all decent people as an institutionally racist and anti-Semitic party” and the prediction of “the existential threat to Jewish life in this country that would be posed by a Jeremy Corbyn-led government” go beyond the boundaries of acceptable political discourse. Worse, they could help to create a climate of fear among many in the Jewish community and by conflating real antisemitism with what they call “political anti-Semitism targeting Israel”, jeopardise prospects for a just and peaceful solution in the Middle East.

We call on other concerned Jews to join us in holding these newspapers to account by adding their signatures below.

Signed:

John Abraham

Mike Abramov
Martin Abrams
Michael Achtman
Dr Karen Adler
Elli Adler
Erika Adler
Benum Alexander
Steven Allen
Andrew Allenson
Jeff Allison
Joshua Alston
Poppy Altmann
Jacqueline Lesley Alty
Nick Amsel
Caroline Anslow
David Applebaum
Devra Applebaum
Ruth Appleton
Ilona Aronovsky FHA
Deborah Asher
Joseph Baglieri
Rhoda Baker
Soodabeh Balali
Shan Barclay
Julia Bard
Sue Bard
Shaul Bar-Haim
Bruce Barnes
Adrian Barnett
Barbara Barnett
Celia Barnett
Patricia Barnett
Michael Baron MBE
Sophia Beach
Sue Beardon
Robert Benewick
Daniel Bennett
Marge Berer
Nick Berish
Sam Berkson
Frances Bernstein
Gerry Bernstein
Dr Jon Berry
David Bieda
Julian Bild
Diane Bindman
Geoffrey Bindman
Emma Bird
Jo Bird
Rica Bird
Jay Blackwood
Pamela Blakelock
Jon W Blend
Jonathan Bloch
Alice Bondi
Tony Booth
Becca Bor
Hagit Borer
Lauren Bourque
Leslie Bravery
Sarah Brenman
Sarah Broadie
Babette Brown
Jenny Brown
Peter Brown
Sara Browne
Jennie Buckman
Peter Buckman
Steven Burkeman
Andy Burkitt
Professor Erica Burman
Brian Burrowes
Veronica Butler
David Cannon
Jane Caplan
Ima Capow
Lin Carey
Dana Carlin
Elizabeth Carola
Mandy Carr
Ian Chard
Ches Chesney
Brian Chinnery
Linda Clair
Lillian Clark
Rosalind Clayton
Andrew Clifford
Eyal Clyne
Barbara Cohen
Jim Cohen
Katherine Cohen
Mike Cohen
Robert Cohen
Katherine Cohn
Graham Coleman
Neil Collins
Tony Collins
Andrew Colman
Cllr Kaya Comer-Schwartz
Daisy Connor
Rabbi Howard Cooper
Susan Corby
Charlie Cox
Rita Craft
Ariela Cravitz
Judith Cravitz
Ron Crawford
Joan Curtis
Mike Cushman
Inga Dahl
Anya-Nicola Darr
Miriam David
Martin Davidson
Steven Davidson
Sally Davies
Gerald de Groot
Alan Deadman
Ivor Dembina
Ric Demby
Carmel Dersch
Dr Jeremiah Dittmar
Jeffrey Doorn
Elizabeth Dore
Ruby Douek
Brian Douieb
Laurence Dreyfus
Audrey Droisen
Jon Dunlop
Marc Eady
Professor Rebecca Earle
Sally Eason
Linda Edmondson
Alice Edwards
Olivia Edwards
Rosalind Edwards
Sue Einhorn
Eric Eisenhandler
Nancy Elan
Michael Ellman
Judith Emmett
Ofer Engel
David Epstein
Debbie Epstein
Bob Erens
Pedro Escobar
Charles Evans
Mary Evers
Jerry Ezekiel
Fiona Factor
Javier Farje
Professor Gene Feder
Pia Feig
Rabbi Michael Feinberg
Andrew Feinstein
Rayah Feldman
Robert Ferguson
Dr Adam Ferner
Deborah Fink
Arye Finkle
Joseph Finlay
Sylvia Finzi
Mik Fischer
Frank Fisher
Joe Fisher
Raoul Fishman
Zac Forman
Katrina Forrester
Dorothy Forsyth
Carol Foster
Nick Foster
Erika Fox
Mel Fox
Stephen Fox
Dr Katy Fox-Hodess
Mark Fraenkel
Peter Fraenkel
Tania Frank
Alexander Franklin
Professor Des Freedman
Carl Freeman
Robert Freudenthal
Nicholas Fried
Melissa Friedberg
Debbie Friedman
Kenny Fryde
Ian Fulton
Adam Ganz
Sam Gaus
Carolyn Gelenter
Maxim Gertler-Jaffe
Valerie Gey
Steven Robert Gill
Milo Adler-Gillies
Anthony Gimpel
René Gimpel
Jane Ginsborg
Joel Gladstone
Dr Jonathan Gluckstein
Dr Sarah Glynn
David Goldberg
Martin Golding
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Phil Goodfield
Arthur Goodman
Simon Goodman
Yvonne Gordon
Monica Gort
Ron Gould
Philip Graham
Tony Graham
Lesley Grahame
Roz Grainger
Wenche Gran
Alice Gray
Ilse Gray
Helen Green
Linda Green
Owen Green
Tony Greenstein
Miriam Greenwood
Jacqueline Gruhn
Heinz Grunewald
Jon Grunewald
Warren Grynberg
D.D. Guttenplan
Mark Gutteridge
Tim Gutteridge
Malcolm H Levitt
Jaap Hamburger
Noel Hamel
Alison Harris
Howard Harris
Professor Lawrence Harris
Judith Harrison
Gabriel Harwood
Abe Hayeem
Daniel Hayeem
Rosamine Hayeem, Harrow East CLP
Jane Henriques
Jacob Heringman
Susan Himmelweit
Justin Hoffman
Abby Hoffmann
Simone Hollander
Wayne Holloway
Gilda Holzman
Sue Hughes
Naomi Hull
Prof Jeffrey Hyman
Dr Anthony Isaacs
Dr Vivienne Jackson
Dr Jacob Berkson
Laura Jacobs
Nicholas Jacobs
Roy Jacobs
Jennifer James
Joanna Jellinek
Riva Joffe
Lara Johnson
Louella Frankel Jones
Nicholas Jones
Susan Jordan
Richard Joseph
Gabriel Josipovici
Ann Jungman
Naomi Junnor
Ahuvia Kahane
Michael Kalmanovitz
Cora Kaplan
Stephen Kapos
Anne Karpf
Jenny Kassman
Dr Simon Katan
Leah Katz
Paul Kaufman
Ruth Kaufman OBE
Ellie Kavner
Norman Kay
Rodney Kay-Kreizman
Daphne Keen
Anna Taylor Kehela
Paul Kelemen
Judith Kelman
Michael Kemper
Anthea Kennedy
Yehudit Keshet
Monash Kessler
David Keys
David King
Godfrey King
Wendy Klein
Shlomit Kleinman
Brian Klug
Francesca Klug
Daniella Kochavi
Prof. Eleonore Kofman
Diana Kornbrot
Agnes Kory
Jay Kramer
Mark Krantz
Stephanie Krayer
Richard Kuper
Jon Kurta
Barry Kushner
Noa Lachman
Frank Land
Madeline Landauer
Bernice Laschinger
Ruth Lass
Michelle Laufer
Dr John Launer
Pam Laurance
Dan Laverick
Tim Lawrence
John Lawson
Sydney Leaman
Dr. Reuben Leberman
Doreen Leighter
Linda Lennard
Helen Lentell
Miki Lentin
Antony Lerman
Hemdat Lerman
Nigel Leskin
Lesley (Leah) Levane
Dr Mark Levene
Rachel Lever
Les Levidow
Jacqueline Levin
Susanne Levin
Adrian Levine
Barrie Levine
Dr Marsha Levine
Daniel Levy
Rosalind Levy
Jonathan Levy Bayer
Jenny Lewenstein
David Lewis
Sam Lewis
Vivien Lichtenstein
Rebecca Liebman
Thirza Limberg
Seth Linder
John Lipetz
Peter Lipman
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Robert Lizar
Gica Loening
John Lohrenz
Katherine Lubar
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