So...time for an update.
The past few weeks have been predictably hectic. As well as visiting campuses - Cambridge, Oxford and UCL - the UJS Campaigns team popped up to Manchester for three days of the Conservative Conference.
Other projects are developing at the moment:
Holocaust Memorial Day (27th January) is being organised as I type.
Preparation for second-term Jewish and/or Israel Experience Weeks (with a possible guest appearance from a big Israeli name) are well underway.
The UJS Annual General Meeting, on the 13th December in London, is finalised - a perfect opportunity for students to get involved in the decision making processes of the UJS.
This coming week sees visits to Birmingham for JUEFA, where I will be displaying my (tragically) modest football skills, two visits to Sussex in the run up to a boycott motion against all Israeli goods (a big Trade Unionist is coming down to argue the case of engagement over boycott), another trip to Birmingham and, on Thursday night, a mad dash from Sussex to London Kings Cross to Cambridge, for a particularly poorly titled debate at the Union: 'This House believes Israel asks for too much and gives too little'. One can expect the usual bile from Bob Crow and Jeremy Corbyn.
I thought I'd also use this blog to muse a little about the British National Party. Evidently, Nick Griffin is an intellectual lightweight, a homophobe, racist, the ultimate agent provocateur - a man who has made a career out of ignorance. He has appeared on Question Time, for better or for worse, and it is now that we must look work to ensure that the alarming electoral successes of this fascistic party are not mirrored in the General Election. I would direct you to the Hope not Hate website, and ask that you explore ways to get involved: http://action.hopenothate.org.uk/index.php/content/home/suit
That's all for now.
Forward Comrades,
Mark.
