Prejudice, Genocide, Remembrance

The Summer School combines substantive education with skills training. It employs a multidisciplinary approach that complements Holocaust education with human rights training. In its methodology it combines collective memory workshops with the discussion of relevant cases of human rights violations and the teaching of skills to prevent and counter these violations. The principle goal of… Read more »

Interculturalism in Historical Education

Target group: researchers, practitioners, museum professionals, NGOs, educatorsIn the frame of: The Jewish Cultural Heritage” project supported by EEA Grants from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway We will address the question of how to use knowledge and reflection about the past to build attitudes of openness in today’s globalising world and harness the potential of diversity… Read more »

European Action Week Against Racism: Hand in Hand for Diversity

21 March is the International Day for the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination, established by The General Assembly of the United Nations in 1966 following the brutal murder of 69 protestors in the South African township of Sharpeville in 1960. The massacre occurred while they had gathered to protest against the apartheid laws… Read more »

Commemoration of the February Strike of 1941

The Februaristaking (February strike) is a general strike that started on February 25, 1941, in Amsterdam. It was directed aginst anti-Jewish measures, taken by the German occupiers of the Netherlands.The direct cause were pogroms held in the Jewish neighbourhood in Amsterdam. The strike was struck down the next day already, and did not prevent the… Read more »

Unite Against Racism and Fascism UAF National Conference

Participation fee: 6.00 – 12.00 GBPThis year far right and fascist groups advanced across Europe. The whipping up of racism against immigrants, black communities, increased Islamophobia and Antisemitism has been its cutting edge. The racism of UKIP has been mainstreamed and looks set to worsen with major parties launching a war to outbid each other… Read more »

General Assembly for 21 March

On 21 march will be as each year a They invite social, religious, and political organisations, trade unions, churches, anti-discrimination bureaus and so on to join the general assembly to prepare this demonstration. It’s the second meeting, where the main points of discussion will be mobilisation, the actual plan and the new material.Time: 19.30-21.00 p.m

Anti-Jewish and Anti-Muslim Racisms and the Question of Palestine/Israel

Participation fee: 20 GBPThis conference seeks to explore the multiple, complex and inter-related ways that anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim racisms are being constructed in relation to the question of Palestine/Israel. In particular it seeks to examine how the histories of Zionist settlement, anti-colonial and nation-building struggles and 20th century warfare in the Middle East region are… Read more »

UAF Protest in Dudley

The English Defence League (EDL) is using the backlash against Muslims to mobilise for its demonstration in Dudley.It says it is objecting to plans for a mosque in the area. But since the Paris killings the protest has become a key event for any racists wanting to march against Muslims. Local activists are organising a… Read more »

No to Fascist Marine Le Pen at the Oxford Union!

On 05.02.2015 Marine Le Pen, leader of the fascist Le Front National will be addressing the Oxford Union. UAF has called a demonstration opposing the Oxford Union’s shameful decision. The invitation should have been rescinded. In the aftermath of the Paris shootings, Le Pen has been whipping up Islamophobia, calling for the surveillance of Mosques… Read more »

Aiming Higher: Race, Inequality and Diversity in the Academy

The research will be launched in the House of Commons at an event chaired by David Lammy MP, a former higher education minister and Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Race and Community.The research covers admissions, attainment, employability, the student experience, curriculum and staffing, and shows continued racial inequalities for the rising numbers… Read more »