Articles and Speeches
These are a range of speeches made at JFJHR events. Opinions expressed within them do not necessarily reflect the view of JFJHR.
Is Torture ever Justified by Moazzam Begg
Moazzam Begg talked at the JFHR meeting on 21st May 2007 on Guantanamo.
Is Israel a Serious Human Rights Violator in the Occupied Territories? Alex Wright
Speech by Rabbi Alexandra Wright, Senior Rabbi at Liberal Synagogue, St Johns Wood, to the December 11th 2006 meeting.
Is Israel a Serious Human Rights Violator in the Occupied Territories? Saul Zadka
Speech by Saul Zadka, Programme Director of Spiro Ark, to the December 11th 2006 meeting.
Is Israel a Serious Human Rights Violator in the Occupied Territories? Stephanie Koury
Speech by Stephanie Koury, Research Fellow at SOAS on law, human rights and peace-building in the Middle East, to the December 11th 2006 meeting.
Israel-Palestine Uncensored: What Future for the Two Peoples?
Anthony Lerman sets out a vision for the future of Israel, based on the recognition that the current ethnocentric path of Israel can only be followed at the expense of human rights and universal values.
Israel-Palestine Uncensored: Tony Klug
Tony Klug sets our four propositions towards the resolution of this ’eminently resolvable conflict’. The two state solution is still obtainable, he argues, but only just and it depends on whether the Israeli leadership values more the the fruits of peace or the spoils of war.
Anti-semitism and the Middle East Conflict
Dr Varda Shiffer argues that “blurring the distinctions between anti-semitism and legitimate criticism of Israel .. will eventually completely jeopardise the much needed struggle against anti-semitism”.
Anti-semitism: real and imagined
Brian Klug examines the difference between legitimate criticism of Israel and actual anti-semitism.
Professor Rodley outlines his personal experience and the need for a group ”to reach out to Jews across the political and religious divides who might otherwise feel isolated in their views”.
Launch Meeting: Speech by Anthony Lerman
Anthony Lerman describes the background to the founding of JFJHR and the need for an alternative Jewish voice that identifies with Israel but “places the need for peace, reconciliation, justice and human rights above ethnic attachment and loyalty”.
JFJHR: The Founding of the Group
Anne Karpf introduces the JFJHR, explaining that “the Forum’s very existence challenges the idea that there’s one way to be a proper Jew”. First published in the Jewish Chronicle 3rd October 2003.