“The Jewish Council for Racial Equality (JCORE) is deeply concerned by plans outlined today by the government for the UK’s asylum system. While the proposals promise fairness, they would result in the cruel creation of a two-tier system, which would seek to divide vulnerable people through the routes in which they have fled to the this country to escape persecution and conflict. Although the government’s commitment to improving the UK’s resettlement schemes is welcome, such p

“The Jewish Council for Racial Equality (JCORE) is deeply appalled by the leaked proposals to establish offshore asylum processing centres in third countries. Such cruel plans are surely not a sign of the more ‘fair, humane, compassionate and outward-looking Home Office’ that the Home Secretary promised in the wake of the Windrush scandal, and would likely violate international refugee law. Vulnerable refugees arriving in the UK should be welcomed with compassion and kindness

The concept of the ghetto, and its place in Black and Jewish history and imagination, were discussed at a Jewish Book Week event on March 7th, run in association with JCORE and hosted by our Executive Director Dr Edie Friedman. A virtual audience joined a thoughtful conversation featuring the University of Reading’s Professor Bryan Cheyette, and former the Guardian editor-at-large, and Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester, Gary Younge. The session opened wit