IJAN US is represented on the National Planning Committee of the US Social Forum. In this role IJAN is supporting the overall coordination, outreach for, and organizing toward the Social Forum, and to support the integration of anti-Zionist, anti-racist and internationalist politics and organizing across the Social Forum. IJAN is working most actively on the Program and Culture Committee, the People’s Movement Assembly Committee, and the International Committee.

The US Social Forum (USSF) which will be held in Detoit, MI June 22-26, 2010 “is more than a conference, more than a networking bonanza, more than a reaction to war and repression. The USSF will provide space to build relationships, learn from each other's experiences, share our analysis of the problems our communities and movements face, and bring increased strength, unity, and renewed insight and inspiration. It will help develop leadership and develop consciousness, vision, and strategy needed to realize another world.” 

IJAN’s role in the USSF process brings our Jewish anti-Zionist voice into the conversation and allows us to build our relationships outside of our explicit Jewish anti-Zionist network. In addition to the pre-USSF anti-Zionist Jewish Convening that IJAN is part of organizing, we will participate in the building of a Justice for Palestine, Confronting Islamophobia and BDS series at the Social Forum.

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This April 4th, 2009, IJAN was honored to be a presenter in the first annualWhite Privilege and U.S. Imperialism track of the White Privilege Conference.The 10th Annual Conference on White Privilege(WPC) was held this past April 1-4 in Memphis,Tennessee. The White PrivilegeConference is a national, annual, multi-racial conference.

The IJAN workshop, "Confronting Zionism as a Form of Racism," was a 3-hourlong, half-day institute. Its primary purpose was to historicize andcontextualize Zionism in the context of Racism and Imperialism. The workshopwas very well attended with over 30 actively engaged participants in livelydiscussion. (Read More to see the fullworkshop description.)