The InternationalJewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN) joins the chorus of international condemnationof the US government attemptto silence people in the UnitedStates who act for human dignity and justiceand who speak out against war and occupation.  

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.