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UKJAN @ukjan.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

In the thread that follows is UKJAN's response to the letter by the Board of Deputies of British Jews (original letter linked here: www.ft.com/content/6a50...) 1/3

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UKJAN @ukjan.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

“We implore our government and all people of conscience to demand Mahmoud Khalil’s release and to defend the rights of those calling for Palestinian and indeed all human rights to be upheld“ Full text of our statement and list of signatories can be found on our website at UKJAN.org.uk 2/4

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“We implore our government and all people of conscience to demand Mahmoud Khalil’s release and to defend the rights of those calling for Palestinian and indeed all human rights to be upheld“

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UKJAN @ukjan.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

We held back briefly while waiting for mainstream news platforms to pick up our letter. After prolonged silence, however, we feel we cannot delay this message any longer. 1/4

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

1/5 A groundbreaking Amnesty report published today concludes Israeli authorities are committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. www.amnesty.org.uk/genocide-rep...

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 29/11/2024

More than 60 British MPs have sent a letter to the UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy, urging him to impose sanctions on Israel over “repeated violations of international law”, according to the Wafa news agency. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/3s86v8

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

83% of plant life in Gaza has been destroyed. Israel's genocide is making Gaza uninhabitable - and our media outlets are complicit by suppressing the truth. New post 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/83-all-pla...

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83% all plant life in Gaza destroyed: two devastating reports on Israel's genocide

Two reports detail the hideous consequences of Israel's Western-facilitated genocide. And yet the Western media bury or ignore them altogether.

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Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @josephwillits.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

May those forcibly displaced from their homes in the villages of south Lebanon return to their homes, their land, and rebuild. May those Palestinians forcibly displaced in ongoing Nakba since 1948 all return to their homes and land, and rebuild.

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UKJAN @ukjan.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

“In unity and with unwavering determination, we declare that justice will prevail. We will not be silenced; we will resist, remember, and record.” - The Unified Call for Justice and Freedom in Palestine www.birzeit.edu/en/news/unif... 4/4

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UKJAN @ukjan.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

A year later, these demands have only become more urgent. www.scholarsforpalestine.org 3/4

A year later, after unfathomable death and destruction, as we watch Israel carry out ethnic cleansing in North Gaza, as state-supported settler terrorism wracks the West Bank, and as Israel ramps up its indiscriminate bombing campaign in Lebanon, these demands have only become more urgent.

As Jewish academics in the UK, we stand with our Palestinian colleagues in occupied Palestine and around the world (including our colleagues at Scholars for Palestine UK) in calling on our institutions to immediately take action in line with the Unified Call for Justice and Freedom in Palestine.

We also believe that UK higher education institutions have an urgent responsibility to suspend their relationships with Israeli universities, divest from companies complicit in Israeli human rights abuses and violations of international law, and exert political pressure on the UK government to end its support for the Israeli state.

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UKJAN @ukjan.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

The statement (www.birzeit.edu/en/news/unif...) lists five concrete actions for the international academic community, urging us to: 2/4

1. Call for an immediate and permanent humanitarian ceasefire, guaranteed by the UN

2. Urge immediate entry into Gaza of sufficient amounts of life-saving humanitarian needs (incl. water, food, fuel, medicine), equitably distributed throughout the whole territory of Gaza Strip.

3. Demand UN protection for the 2.3 million Palestinian civilians trapped under siege in Gaza

4. Issue clear positions rejecting any ethnic cleansing

5. Support in dismantling the settler colonial and apartheid system and to achieve and a just, comprehensive, and lasting peace.

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UKJAN @ukjan.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

What is the Unified Call for Justice and Freedom in Palestine? In Nov 2023, 15 Palestinian HE institutions issued a joint statement (www.birzeit.edu/en/news/unif...) calling upon academic institutions worldwide to take action against the genocide being perpetrated by Israel against Gazans. 1/4

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UK Jewish Academic Network

The Unified Call for Justice and Freedom in Palestine

One Year Later

What is the Unified Call for Justice and Freedom in Palestine?

In November 2023, 15 Palestinian higher education institutions issued a joint statement calling upon academic institutions worldwide to take action against the genocide being perpetrated by Israel against Gazans.

The statement lists five concrete actions for the international academic community, urging us to:

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UKJAN @ukjan.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

within the academy and in our communities. We commit to the struggle against Islamophobia and to combating antisemitism within the framework of broader anti-racist and decolonial liberation struggles and movements for social justice. 13/13

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UKJAN @ukjan.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

• We promote ‘safety through solidarity’ (Burley & Lorber, 2024). We acknowledge our communities’ inherited traumas & antisemitism’s deep historical roots in British society. We advocate for compassionate & informed discussion of antisemitism & Israel/Palestine 12/13

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UKJAN @ukjan.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

We note the long history of pro-Palestinian/non & anti-Zionist sentiment across Jewish communities globally & in the UK, and the accelerating fragmentation of public opinion on Israel in the Jewish diaspora - a diversity that our institutions too often fail to reflect. 11/13

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UKJAN @ukjan.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

• We resist the assumption that UK Jews speak with a single voice on any issue inc. Israel/Zionism. Homogenising Jewish opinions on Israel is an act of erasure as is antisemitic stereotyping, so is conflating the interests of Jews worldwide with those of the Israeli state 10/13

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UKJAN @ukjan.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

In doing so, they create confusion around what antisemitism is and risk trivialising the real threats it poses to Jewish safety, especially by deemphasising antisemitism on the right. 9/13

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UKJAN @ukjan.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

• We reject the conflation of criticism of Israel/Zionism with antisemitism. Instruments like the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism have increasingly been used to discipline and criminalise legitimate political speech. 8/13

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UKJAN @ukjan.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

• Universities must be free from political interference. As academics committed to academic freedom, we support the right of students and faculty to criticise Israel’s actions, to express support for Palestinian liberation, and to engage in nonviolent protest. 7/13

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UKJAN @ukjan.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

• We refute the notion that the safety of Jews rests upon the oppression of Palestinians. We are committed to realising safety, dignity, and self-determination for all Palestinians and Israelis. 6/13

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UKJAN @ukjan.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

• We call on the UK government to end its complicity in Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza and to press for an immediate and permanent ceasefire. 5/13

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UKJAN @ukjan.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Here are our main points and you can read the full statement on our website • We support the struggle for freedom, equality, and justice for all Palestinians and Israelis. 4/13

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UKJAN @ukjan.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

As Jews and academics, we represent diverse areas of expertise and a wide variety of political, religious, and cultural viewpoints. Jewish opinion is not homogenous, yet as members of UKJAN, we assert the following shared values and principles: 3/13

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UKJAN @ukjan.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Increasingly, we have seen accusations of antisemitism used to shut down criticism of Israeli violence in Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon. Such tactics ultimately endanger both Jews and other minoritised groups across the UK and beyond. 2/13

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UKJAN @ukjan.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

UKJAN Values Statement: (Thread, originally posted 8 Oct 2024) The UK Jewish Academic Network (UKJAN) launched in May 2024 to challenge the widespread instrumentalisation of antisemitism and memory of the Holocaust to suppress legitimate political dissent. 1/13

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