Solidarity with Uyghur People - Messages for Holocaust Memorial Day

Jewish Action to Stop Uyghur Persecution - Together for Uyghurs – a Holocaust memorial event

25/01/2021 | Na stronie od 30/01/2021

Together for Uyghurs – a Holocaust memorial event

From: Elijah Interfaith Institute

The suffering of the Uyghur People is one of the greatest sufferings in today's world. As all of humanity suffers the harsh reality brought about by the Corona virus, we must not forget the millions of people who are in camps, under conditions of forced labor, terrorized by the Chinese government. Holocaust Memorial Day brought together notable speakers from different religions and nationalities, including Archbishop Rowan Williams and Elijah Board Member, Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg, in a program dedicated to the suffering of the Uyghurs.

It is hard to stay neutral when one hears the impassioned plea of Rabbi Wittenberg who draws on his family experience, in Nazi Germany, as he expresses care and solidarity with the Uyghurs.

Watch the entire program, coordinated by René Cassin here:

On 25 January 2021, in the week of Holocaust Memorial Day 2021, prominent leaders and thinkers share how their beliefs inspire them to action for the Uyghur people.

Speakers • Ziba Murat, daughter of retired Uyghur doctor Gulshan Abbas who was recently sentenced to 20 years in prison because of her family members' activism in the US • Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg, Senior Rabbi of Masorti Judaism • Sonam T Frasi, FCA, RAS, Representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama for Northern Europe, Poland and the Baltic States • Andrew Copson, Chief Executive of Humanists UK and President of Humanists International • The Rt Hon and Rt Rev Lord Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury

This online event was jointly hosted by two organisations: René Cassin, the Jewish voice for human rights, and CSW a Christian human rights organisation specialising in freedom of religion or belief. read the full reflections by last night’s speakers visit www.StopUyghurGenocide.org.uk/together For more information on how you can help the Uyghurs, visit: • CSW campaigns<<< • René Cassin campaigns<<<

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The persecution of the Uyghurs, due to their ethnic and religious identity, serves as a chilling reminder to the horrors committed against the Jews in the Holocaust.

We must honour the victims and survivors of that genocide through our efforts to ensure it never happens again. The memory of the Holocaust lives on in our human rights framework, which gives the Jewish community both a particular authority and an acute moral responsibility to speak out against in protest when such atrocities are now happening to the Uyghurs.

URGENT ACTION (4 January 2021) – Write to your MP and demand no trade deals with genocidal states, using this link

The Genocide Amendment (Amendment 9), if passed, would make clear that parliament does not wish the UK Government to offer favourable trade tariffs to a genocidal state through a bilateral trade agreement, and in passed will enables U.K. courts to judge that the crime of genocide has happened. Read more about the amendment in this briefing

Crowd funding in support of the Stop Uyghur Genocide campaign

Support the‘gofundme’ fundraising appeal in support of the Stop Uyghur Genocide campaign calling for: closure of the camps and release of all prisoners; end to forced labour, sterilisation and organ harvesting; and the restoration of all religious and cultural freedoms. https://www.gofundme.com/f/stop-uyghur-genocide

Call to Action on businesses to end Uyghur forced labour from China

A Call to Action seeking brand commitments to cut all ties with suppliers implicated in forced labour and end all sourcing from the Uyghur Region, from cotton to finished garments, within twelve months. Write to companies and urge them to join Adidas, H&M, Lacoste, and M&S who have made formal commitments to cut all ties with suppliers implicated in Uyghur forced labour and to ban any sourcing from the Uyghur Region, from cotton to finished garments.

Generic letter to MP

ite to your MP to raise your concern on the treatment and persecution of Muslim Uyghurs in China. Template letter available here (read more about the situation of Uyghurs in China here).

Letter to MP on oppression of Uyghur Women

Write to your MP to raise your concern on China’s systematic oppression of Uyghur women. Template letter available here (read more about the plight of Uygur women in China here )

Weekly demonstration outside Chinese Embassy’s Cultural Section

Every Tuesday 6-7pm members of the Jewish Community protest outside the Chinese Embassy – Cultural Section, 11 West Heath Road, Hampstead NW3 7UX

Sign our Pledge – Stop Uyghur Genocide

A human rights crisis is unfolding in China, where at least one million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in the Uyghur Region of China are suffering a grave persecution as part of a wide effort by the Chinese government to erase their culture and identity. Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide represent our world at its worst. Preventing them requires global leadership at its best. This is a calling to which the UK should aspire.

I therefore refuse to look the other way and I pledge to demand the UK Government to do the following:

  1. Urgently request an independent United Nations mechanism to investigate, closely monitor and report annually on the human rights situation in the Uyghur Region, as called for by the UN’s Special Procedures’ experts.

  2. Commission an independent legal investigation into Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide against Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in the Uyghur Region.

  3. Hold China accountable, through of coordinated sanctions with allies and Magnitsky style human rights sanctions against state and non-state perpetrators.

  4. Take action against companies and institutions facilitating the persecution of Uyghurs and require companies importing products or components from China to investigate their supply chains for the risks of sourcing from the Uyghur region and the use of Uyghur forced labour anywhere in China, or move their supply chains from China.

  5. Offer direct support to all Uyghurs fleeing persecution, including that available through the UK immigration system.

Signed:

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