After Israel’s November election, a few months into my term as president of the U.K. and Ireland’s Union of Jewish Students, we released a particularly strong condemnation of the nascent government, and I braced for a significant public backlash from major communal organizations.
But it never came.
Many urged caution in private, and some students from both the left and right took issue with the content of the statement, but the vast majority understood and supported our message: This Israeli government’s values are not our values. In the months that followed, as the far-right began its assault on the judiciary, major communal organizations followed, issuing public condemnations of their own.
The British Jewish community has a longstanding connection to and affinity with Israel. We are geographically closer than the other English-speaking diaspora
— source Jews For Justice For Palestinians | Joel Rosen | Jun 7, 2023