Here is the order of motions for UJS Conference 23/24
Constitutional Amendments
- 1: A Jewish Teachers Association
- 7: Defining Israel engagement
- 10: Safeguarding Our Union
- 9: Expanding Our Mandated Work Areas
- 3: National Council Regional Members
- 2: UJS is a Zionist Organisation
- 8: Defining Jewish
- 5: Defining Peer-Leadership
- 4: Defining Cross-Communalism
- 6: Defining Representation
Programming
- 7: Accessing support for sexual violence
- 11: UJS must to more for Israeli students
- 18: Facilitate more Jewish students involved in Students’ unions
- 14: UJS delegation at annual AJEX parade
- 15: UJS against marginalisation
- 5: UJS Israel trips shouldn’t always include going to West Bank
- 6: Safety and Security at Campus Events for all Jewish students
- 9: Linking students and their local Jewish communities together, especially for small JSocs and placement students
- 2: Increasing the online live-streaming presence of national and local events to boost accessibility and engagement
- 17: UJS Israel engagement fellowship
- 3: National Annual inter-JSoc Sports Tournament
- 21: Welfare training
- 13: Support and Networking for Jewish medical students
- 10: UJS nightline
- 8: Facilitate in-person initiatives for students to connect throughout the UK and Ireland that actively promote a diverse Jewish culture
- 12: Food Hygiene
- 19: UJSix growth
- 20: Additional shabbaton weekend
- 1: Continuing Yalla: The Podcast of Jewish students
- 4: UJS to found KEHILLAH art magazine
- 22: UJS is a Swiftie organisation
- 16: Membership services
Jewish Engagement and Inclusion
- 2: Acceptance and Inclusion of all Jewish students regardless of path or identity
- 3: Working with the Holocaust survivors centre and Jewish Care
- 13: Even more transliteration proliferation
- 6: Ensuring that JSoc spaces and events are accessible to students with physical disabilities and other accessibility events
- 14: Holocaust Education week
- 1: Fostering Inclusivity for international Jewish students
- 9: Increasing Access to Jewish studies and strengthening Jewish academic engagement
- 10: Educational trips to Auschwitz for non-Jews
- 16: Women+ empowerment initiative and network
- 4: Supporting students with a Holocaust family background/ third and fourth generation survivors
- 12: Inclusivity Review
- 8: Cross-Communal service funding
- 11: Intrafaith continued
- 5: Working with HET Ambassadors
- 7: Ensuring dietary requirements are always catered for at JSoc events
- 15: Liberation Working Groups
Your Union
- 8: Irish Jewish Inclusion: UJS presidential visits and Irish Jewish Student Council
- 10: UJS must make an effort to engage with Israel Societies
- 15: Inter-JSoc collaboration and Partnership
- 6: Former JSoc president mentors
- 11: UJS to increase funding to reach out to normally isolated students
- 17: Israel Engagement Sab
- 13: Readopting Positive relapsing policies
- 7: Making the internal complaints procedure for the Union of Jewish Students visible, accessible and anonymous
- 5: Making UJS democracy more inclusive
- 3: Campaign timings
- 1: UJS anthem – Mani Mamtera
- 12: Small and Remote JSocs Advisory group
- 9: Standing against all forms of hatred against any group
- 2: Campaign timings
- 16: UJS accountability and access
- 4: CST building review
- 14: Chat Jew-PT
Campaigns
- 29: Recognition of the IRGC as a terrorist organisation
- 27: October 7th Commemoration and Education
- 4: Antisemitism Awareness Education in Labour Students
- 19: Greater support for Jewish students in NUS spaces
- 6: Training on Israel Disinformation
- 21: Israel’s Security is Paramount
- 7: Making Sure ALL Universities Accept and Acknowledge IHRA
- 23: Proactive Israel advocacy
- 28: UJS demands the immediate and unconditional return of all hostages taken by Hamas
- 2: Antisemitism Awareness Week
- 30: Supporting human rights, security and long-term peace building in Israel/Palestine
- 1: UJS urges the Israeli Government to Ensure that Palestinian Civilians in Gaza have Access to Basic Provisions Needed for Their Survival
- 22: UJS, JSocs & local MPs
- 20: Distinguishing between the terror group Hamas and the Palestinian civilian population
- 24: Focussing Israel Engagement on what matters
- 25: Campus Safety Scores
- 3: Tzedakah & Education
- 26: Recognising diversity in Jewish student opinion
- 5: Antisemitism Is Different to Other Forms of Hate
- 16: Expand antisemitism awareness training to university staff
- 8: Israel Education Week
- 9: Teaching Israeli History Correctly will Reduce Antisemitism
- 17: UJS to support and sign the ‘Our Jewish Values’ statement
- 18: Condemning Settler Violence and the displacement of Palestinian Communities in the West Bank
- 10: Anti-Zionism IS antisemitism
- 11: ‘Intifada’ is a call to violence
- 12: UJS to lobby the government to lower tuition fees
- 13: UJS to support the right to protest within Israel
- 14: UJS to support a negotiated two-state solution
- 15: UJS to campaign for reform and awareness of complaints
World of Work:
- 1: Endeavour to Connect Apprentices to Their Local JSocs
- 2: UJS Apprenticeships Network to Continue
- 8: UJS to Run Networking Events
- 7: UJS to Support Trade Unions and Worker’s Rights
- 5: Drama, Music and Arts Schools Network
- 9: UJS Support for Students on Placement Years
- 4: UJS to Join the National Society of Apprentices (NSoA)
- 3: UJS to Mark National Apprentices Week
- 6: Continue to Keep the UJS Careers Hub Up-to-date
Community:
- 2: Promoting interfaith initiatives and combatting division between communities
- 4: Increasing and Solidifying UJS relationships with Global Jewish Networks
- 5: Period Poverty Awareness
- 1: UJS to actively support a Right to Food in the UK
- 3: National Fundraising (Tikkun Olam) day