Launch Plans

The Charter is being translated into Hindi and Urdu andthere are public meetings being organized in Mumbai and Delhi for later in October.

About Us

While the growing relationship between Israel and Indiais a stark example of Israeland the United State’sdesire for new allies in the global South, Indiahas its own anti-colonial history of struggle and a rich legacy of solidaritywith Third World liberation movements. India's support to Palestine is part of this legacy and it waswoven into the very fabric & foundation of the Indian national liberationmovement itself.

The Global War on Terror has been relentlessin its propaganda and the subsequent demonization of Muslims and this is truefor the Islamophobia that exists within the Indian elite as well. Even though the Indian Brahmanicalcaste-class elite are in a close strategic partnership with Israel, thereis a growing people's movement that will challenge and ultimately defeatthis alliance.

Our work in Indiais part of defeating this alliance and bringing together the struggles againstIslamophobia and caste prejudice in India and Israeli Apartheid. Ourlead organizers in Indiainclude anti-Zionist Jewish and Muslim activists.

Regional Building

The India IJAN is preparing for a popular tribunalthat will hold to account the Indian investments and government partnershipswith Israel, document theimpact of a consistently rotating and significant post-service Israeli soldierpresence in India, and exposethe similarities between India’scaste system, Israeli racism against Mizrahi Jews, and the Israeli Apartheidagainst Palestinians.

Launch Plan

There will be a cross-movement panel of immigrant rights organizations, Palestinian solidarity organizations and IJAN members at the end of October, 2008 in Lille, France.

Look out for our charter in major European newspapers and on-line forums.

About Us

We identify Europe as a major imperial force in the region and a financial backer of the occupation. At the same time, there is a growing public sentiment in support of the Palestinian movement and a strong anti-war movement.

IJAN in Europe will work to build partnerships with anti-imperialist, anti-war, anti-racist, anti-Islamophobia and immigrant rights movements, connect anti-Zionist Jews across Europe, and support the Palestinian solidarity movement and Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions efforts. To this end, we will organize touring educational events, popular tribunals to judge Israeli crimes and criminals, and actions.

Specifically because of the history of European anti-Semitism, European Jews offer a critical voice in challenging the racialized violence of Jews against Palestinians that was once perpetrated after Jews.

The IJAN in Europe has members in Turin and Milan (Italy), Vienna (Austria), Berlin (Germany), Geneva (Switzerland), and Lille, Rouen, Bordeaux, and Paris (France).

Who are we?

because we stand within and in solidarity with youth movements for social justice throughout the world;

because we refuse to be pawns in a colonial project that seeks to use "our future" to justify it's atrocities;

because we will no longer remain invisible as Zionist student organizations speak for Jews on our schools and campuses and attack our fellow student groups struggle for justice in Palestine and critical of Israel.

because we seek to be a part of the movement for a free Palestine and want to build our capacity to work strategically, consciously and powerfully as we do so; and

because for some of us, using our Jewish identity to play a strategic part in an anti-imperialist, anti-racist movement is the only way we feel connected to jewishness; and for others of us, our Jewish identity, which is so important to us, is deeply intertwined in our commitment to anti-imperialist, anti-racist struggle; and for all us forging a positive and powerful relationship between our jewishness, political vision and the struggle for justice in Palestine, feels critical and important.

We hope to build a network of Jewish, anti-Zionist, anti-racist, anti-imperialist student activists to create opportunities for support, collaboration and development of the organizing work we are and wish to be engaged in for justice in Palestine and beyond.

Current work:

Ideas for projects of the network:

• Increasing anti-Zionist Jewish participation in Boycott, Divestment and Sanction campaigns and Palestine Solidarity organizing more broadly
• Collaborating and lending an anti-Zionist Jewish voice and labor to the organizing of PSM groups on campuses
• Creating a youth/student track of the Network North American Convening 
• Coordinating anti-Zionist Study into Action groups for academic credit 
• Organizing spoken word/music/arts events that feature anti-Zionist Jewish and Palestinian voices
• Developing an anti-Zionist Jewish campus organizing toolkit
• Creating internship opportunities for college student with the Network
• Organizing a campus speaking tour of anti-Zionist voices
• Collaborate with the academic network on strategic defense and promotion of anti-Zionist thinkers and writers
• Holding an anti-Zionist Jewish arts and organizing camp for high school students
• Coordinating Unlearning Zionism workshops for college students and high-school age youth

More information about next steps coming soon!