Billboards ordering Brits to "Stand with jews" go up all across Britain

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Antisemitism watchdog launches UK-wide Stand With Jews campaign
The organisation's billboards will feature in cities across the UK such as Birmingham, Manchester, Edinburgh and Glasgow
https://www.thejc.com/news/news/antisemitism-watchdog-launches-uk-wide-stand-with-jews-campaign-5gY61OZ4xJhBLCDh0NieyH?reloadTime=1673972876122

The Campaign Against Antisemitism has launched the first-ever nationwide billboard campaign asking for the public's support against antisemitism.

The move comes following figures published from the Home Office that show Jews are 500% more likely to be targeted for hate crimes than any other faith demographic.

The campaign, launched on Tuesday, will run in cities across the UK for two weeks, including over Holocaust Memorial Day next week, on billboards, in shopping centres, motorways and high streets.

The billboards invite the public to take a stand using the hashtag #StandWithJews or by sharing their own experiences with antisemitism by using #BecauseImJewish hashtag.

Gideon Falter, Chief Executive of Campaign Against Antisemitism, told the JC: "This campaign is not about specific people like Kanye West, or Jeremy Corbyn, or about any one lightning rod of antisemitism, this is about the very real day-to-day violence and hatred that Jews experience as a community, even in a fundamentally great and tolerant place to live such as Britain."

Aiming to challenge the public's preconceptions about what it means to "look Jewish", the billboards feature a diverse mix of individuals.

Mr Falter said: "I think a lot of people may be surprised by the diversity of the people featured on the billboards, but they reflect the UK's Jewish community. 

"It can be unusual to have so many very different people from different backgrounds and levels of religiosity standing together as Jews, stripping away all labels except the fact that they're Jewish – there is one thing that we do share, if nothing else, and that is that on average we are 500 per cent more likely to suffer a hate crime.

"For everyone who's not an antisemite or a member of the Jewish community, we're saying: Look, this is what's going on, this shouldn't be happening in Britain in 2023. Will you help us? We need decent people in this country to stand with the Jewish community and say enough is enough." Mr Falter said.

The models featured in the campaign include Holocaust survivor Ruth Posner and, what is thought to be the first time ever in a UK billboard campaign, a member from the Charedi strictly Orthodox community.

One of the models, Programme Manager at the CAA, Binyomin Gilbert, told the JC: "I was a student activist, I know what antisemitism is like. And I've always felt that the Jewish community is too apologetic, too quiet, and there needed to be a new movement with the times that can address modern antisemitism.

"I think this is the first time I've seen a billboard featuring a person wearing a kippah. It's a momentous moment I think for the British community, and I'm quite proud that I can be a part of that.

"Jew hatred has not ever historically been a trendy topic for people to address. Hopefully, this phenomenal statistic catches people's attention and they can spot it every day, and reflect on it."

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Looks like the jews in Britain are getting their billboards for free.  Who would have thunk it.   

Thanks to a donation of space from an outdoor media company, the faces of rank-and-file members of the U.K.'s Jewish community are now appearing on large and hard-to-ignore billboards in places such as Leicester Square, London's iconic cultural hub.

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CAA told eJP that its billboard spaces across the country — including in Leicester Square — were donated by leading U.K. outdoor advertising company Ocean Outdoor, with volunteers providing advertising, photography, wardrobe, hair and makeup assistance and more. The CAA spokesperson said that, as a volunteer-led organization, supporters like those are "the core of our operation."
https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/why-these-jewish-organizations-are-investing-in-billboards-to-get-their-message-out/