Will you help get our anti-Zionist Rabbi Weiss here from the USA? The UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) have called upon Suella Braverman, the Home Secretary to exclude him from the UK. (see here).

They want to prevent him speaking on the Muslim and Jew: Beyond Israel free tour due to begin on 24th April, where he would accompany author and broadcaster Dr Azzam Tamimi visiting 15 cities around the UK. He was going to explain why many Orthodox Jews don’t recognise Israel and what should stand in its place. One state, a Palestine for all its peoples?

UKLFI are notorious for getting textbooks rewritten, people fired or exhibitions closed for having the temerity to support Palestinian voices- they recently forced a London hospital to remove Gaza children’s artwork having argued that some Jewish patients felt “vulnerable, harassed and victimised” by the display at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital! (see here).

These rabid lawyers got the director of the Whitworth Gallery in Manchester fired for daring to put on an exhibition which included a statement of solidarity with Palestine’s “liberation struggle”. (see here)

However, they failed to prevent Edinburgh Council from discussing what it can do to help Gaza- (see here ) when Police Scotland and Michael Mansfield KC gave assurances that, contrary to UKLFI threats, there was nothing illegal about twinning with Gaza.

So- they can be stopped, but only by our action. Can you please pen a letter to the Home Secretary explaining that the Rabbi must be allowed in? He believes he can reduce antisemitism in the UK as a Jew who has a sympathetic perspective on the Palestinians. Rabbi Weiss is a peaceful, devoutly religious man who knows too well about antisemitism- his grandparents died in Auschwitz. 

Excluding him would be ipso facto antisemitic as he would be being targeted because of his Judaic faith. Others anti-Zionists are allowed into the UK, after all. To prevent him coming would be an attack on freedom of speech. There are many Jewish people who share his religious views and I foresee his visit will bring these Jews and Muslims together. On his previous visits there were no difficulties.

To write to the Home Secretary, click on our website here

Thanks,

Pete Gregson (Chair), One Democratic Palestine