SFI Endorses IBA’s Stop-Israel-Bashing Campaign in the U.N.
4 October, 2017
Join the new campaign by the Israel Britain Alliance to stop the ongoing, relentless Israel-bashing in the United Nations. For background, see this video… and read this commentary: Our world is a scary place right now. Headlines are dominated by the plight of the Rohingya in Myanmar, the continuing disaster in Syria and the prospect […]
Read MoreSFI Supports Campaign Asking Union Leader to apologise for dismissing antisemitism in Labour Party
4 October, 2017
Unite trade union leader Len McCluskey appeared to dismiss cases of antisemitism in the Labour Party last week when he gave an interview saying he had “never been at a meeting where there was any antisemitic language or any attacks on the Jewish nation; they would have had short shrift at any meeting that I […]
Read MoreRemove Holocaust Denier David Irving’s Works from Manchester U
17 August, 2017
Sussex Friends of Israel supports the Change.org initiative by Northwest Friends of Israel: (For background, click here.) Manchester University has refused to move works by David Irving from open display on library shelves or to label them as “Holocaust denial” literature. According to the IHRA definition of anti Semitism which has been adopted by the […]
Read MoreSFI Endorses IBA’s Stop-Israel-Bashing Campaign in the U.N.
Join the new campaign by the Israel Britain Alliance to stop the ongoing, relentless Israel-bashing in the United Nations. For background, see this video… and read this commentary: Our world is a scary place right now. Headlines are dominated by the plight of the Rohingya in Myanmar, the continuing disaster in Syria and the prospect […]
SFI Supports Campaign Asking Union Leader to apologise for dismissing antisemitism in Labour Party
Unite trade union leader Len McCluskey appeared to dismiss cases of antisemitism in the Labour Party last week when he gave an interview saying he had “never been at a meeting where there was any antisemitic language or any attacks on the Jewish nation; they would have had short shrift at any meeting that I […]
Remove Holocaust Denier David Irving’s Works from Manchester U
Sussex Friends of Israel supports the Change.org initiative by Northwest Friends of Israel: (For background, click here.) Manchester University has refused to move works by David Irving from open display on library shelves or to label them as “Holocaust denial” literature. According to the IHRA definition of anti Semitism which has been adopted by the […]
Write Your MP Now — A Pledge for Israel
On June 8 we will all have the opportunity to cast our votes in the General Election. Many issues will contribute to each person’s final determination on the candidates placed before them. Sussex Friends of Israel urgently recommends that you consider Israel in determining how you vote. Britain has been one of Israel’s staunchest allies since […]
Beating BDS with a Dose of Charity
By C.S. Teitelbaum Mishpacha, page 21, 22 Cheshvan 5776/November 4, 2015 British Jewish organisations that used charitable donations to successfully counter anti-Israel BDS-ers last Chanukah are expanding their work this year beyond England’s shores. IsrAction Day, scheduled for December 13 with a Chanukah candle lighting ceremony, is designed to encourage the public to purchase Israeli-made […]
SFI Supports National Rally for Israel’s Prime Minister
Now is the time For three years Sussex Friends of Israel, Pro-Israel Response Group and other grassroots organisations have been at the forefront in the fight against the latest incarnation of antisemitism – an unvarnished hatred that groups like the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign (PSC) subsume under the […]
Statement On Proposed Neo-Nazi Demonstration In Golders Green on July 4th
As many of you will be aware a very small number of far right neo-Nazis are planning a static demonstration in Golders Green on July 4th. Sussex Friends of Israel along with Pro-Israel Response Group deplore and condemn this obvious attempt to incite our community. SFI, along with all major community groups have called on […]
Labour and Conservative Parliamentary Candidates Address Jewish Community in SFI Hustings Event
Labour MP candidate Peter Kyle HOVE — 2 May 2015, by Winston Pickett With little more than a week before one of the most closely contested general elections in years, approximately 30 people gathered in Ralli Hall Wednesday night to hear first hand the views of two main candidates for the parliamentary seat of Hove and Portslade. In a meeting organised by Sussex Friends […]
Legal bid to save anti-Israel Southampton conference rejected
Jewish Chronicle, April 16, 2015 Plans to hold a conference questioning Israel’s right to exist have been scrapped after a legal challenge by its organisers was rejected. Professors Oren Ben Dor and Suleiman Sharkh applied for a judicial review after Southampton University said it would not host the conference this weekend because of security concerns […]
SFI Statement on Cancellation of Southampton Conference
Sussex Friends of Israel are very pleased with the decision made by the University of Southampton to withdraw permission for the International Law and the State of Israel Conference to take place on its campus. In taking a leading role organising a demonstration we did not, nor do not seek to stifle free speech. On […]
Southampton University conference questioning right of Israel to exist ‘scrapped’ after protests
Southampton University has withdrawn permission for a controversial conference questioning Israel’s right to exist to be held on its south-coast campus, claim the event’s organisers THE TELEGRAPH, 31 March 2015 By Patrick Sawer and Jonny Paul The University of Southampton is understood to have withdrawn permission for the three-day conference to be held on its […]
Professor dropped from university institute over controversial Israel conference
JEWISH CHRONICLE 23 March 2015 An academic institute has removed from its board the organiser of a conference questioning Israel’s right to exist. According to the Academic Friends of Israel blog The Parkes Institute, a study centre for Jewish – non-Jewish relations at Southampton University, has dropped Professor Oren Ben-Dor over his role in arranging […]