Tomorrow We March for Britain

Tomorrow, in London, we have an opportunity to tell the rest of the country that those who want to drive Jews out of public life, who attack school buses and school children, who would spit and punch, or set fire to a synagogue, who would deface a poster of a child held hostage or celebrate a pogrom, do not speak for the majority in Britain.

The majority in the UK–no matter what their religion–has compassion and empathy for those who lost loved ones on 7.10. The majority in this country knows that it is wrong to refuse to show Israeli films, or to cancel Israeli speakers, or to demand that funding be rejected if it comes from anyone connected with Israel.

Tomorrow is an opportunity to turn the tide.

For months Jews and Israelis have been fighting this battle alone, and that must change. Not only because Jews in Britain need our support, our understanding, our solidarity.

But more importantly, because Jews in Britain are on the frontline of a fight that will engulf us all. Every anti-Semitic act is an action against our norms, our values and those things that unite us. Our society does not shout through a vigil for those murdered during 7.10, as happened in Glasgow. We do not dance outside a country's embassy barely a day after a pogrom that killed hundreds of festival-goers, as happened on October 9th, last year. We do not taunt and shout at elderly people waiting to attend a conference at a community centre, until they cry, as happened just a few months ago, outside JW3.

If you think that to march in solidarity with Britain's Jews tomorrow is to do them a favour, then you are wrong. They are leading the fight to defend our values. We need to march alongside them, to defend our shared values, before it's too late.

Meet us tomorrow, December 8th, at 12pm outside the Royal Courts of Justice, ready to march at 1pm.

Look out for the Our Fight banner and placards, and grab some of our new leaflets.