In early May 2021, weeks of violent mistreatment of the residents of Sheikh Jarrah, including state-sanctioned dispossession, brutalising of Palestinian protestors and the assault on worshippers at Al-Aqsa mosque culminated in violence breaking out across Israel-Palestine.
Horrified by the violence, Na’amod redoubled our organising within the British Jewish Community to make clear that British Jews stand in solidarity with Palestinians. Faced with silence and Occupation denial from our communal leadership, Na’amod stepped into the void in moral leadership to call for a Jewish community which, when faced with the choice between violence, dispossession and occupation on the one hand, and freedom and dignity for all on the other, will always choose to stand for the latter.