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A march fills a sunlit street from side to side and stretches back to Trafalgar Square, Nelson’s Column and the National Gallery behind it, a yellow Let Them Go banner and yellow shirts along the left of the front rank. — A hostage march reaching Trafalgar Square.Amanda Rose

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Start hereYour first fifteen minutes
Whether to reply at all, the one thing worth doing tonight if you decide to, the rules that hold whatever you post, and where to go when you have longer.
SOC · 6 min
Capturing evidence properly
A nine-step procedure for recording an incident so it still works in six months, a six-word short form for the street, and what to do when it happens on Shabbat.
EVT · 7 min
When it happened weeks ago and you said nothing
You froze, the room moved on, and you have not. Whether you can still raise something weeks old, what is still worth writing down, and the sentence to open with.
CAM · 8 min
When you are the only Jew in the room
It comes up in a seminar, a staff meeting or over dinner, and you are the only Jewish person there. What to do in the next sixty seconds, and afterwards.
CAM · 7 min
Writing a letter that gets printed
How to write a letter to a newspaper that actually runs, why speed beats quality, and what to do when it is not printed, which is most of the time.
MED · 8 min
Answering hostile replies
You posted something and the replies arrived. What to answer, what to leave alone, and how to come out of it without damage.
SOC · 8 min
Somebody you know posted it
The most common argument you will ever have online is with somebody you cannot block. What to reply in public, what to send in a message, and when to say nothing at all.
SOC · 7 min
Key arguments
The lines that work, grouped by the situation you are actually in, with the reasoning under each so you can rebuild the argument when somebody pushes.
CNV · 9 min
When a friend asks
A sincere question from somebody who likes you is not an argument, and answering it as though it were is how you lose the most persuadable person you will ever speak to.
CNV · 11 min
Arguing with sympathy
Somebody describing a death has not made an argument, and answering it with one is the most common way a well briefed advocate loses a room.
CNV · 9 min
When it comes at you
A pile-on, your details posted, contact with your employer, somebody at your door. What to do in the first hour, the first day and the first week.
SOC · 9 min
Reporting antisemitic content
Most reports go nowhere. What to capture first, which policy to report under, what each platform actually covers, and when to take it somewhere else.
SOC · 9 min
The four concessions
Four sentences that cover every argument on this site, each with the sentence that turns it. What to concede, when, and the one thing you never concede.
CNV · 5 min
Protesting for Palestine without antisemitism
Written for somebody who marches for Palestine and does not want to be antisemitic. What four chants mean, where they come from, and what to chant instead.
CNV · 8 min

An evening

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A week or so

10 guides

A few weeks

9 guides

Ongoing commitment

6 guides

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Whether your event is a moving procession or a static assembly, because the notice requirement attaches to one and not the other.

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legislation.gov.uk for the primary text, not a summary of it
A civil liberties or protest support organisation that tracks changes
Your own union or student body, if you belong to one, since many already hold legal support

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Which rules are federal, which are state and which are city, because all three can apply to the same gathering.

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Your state and city codes, which differ sharply from each other
A national civil liberties organisation with a local chapter

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Whether the rules that apply to you are federal, provincial or municipal.

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Which state or territory you are in, because these are genuinely different legal regimes rather than variations of one.

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State or territory legislation
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Somewhere else

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The same six questions apply everywhere. The guide below sets them out and tells you who to ask.

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Your national legislation, published online in most countries
A local rights organisation that tracks protest law

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What to do

About 15 minutes

Start hereYour first fifteen minutes

Capturing evidence properly

When it happened weeks ago and you said nothing

When you are the only Jew in the room

Writing a letter that gets printed

Answering hostile replies

Somebody you know posted it

Key arguments

When a friend asks

Arguing with sympathy

When it comes at you

Reporting antisemitic content

The four concessions

Protesting for Palestine without antisemitism

An evening

Speaking up where you work

How to argue well

What is this action actually for?

Risk and safety planning before you announce anything

Running the day, from the six roles to a hostile encounter

Running a meeting when this is the subject

The list of people, and what you owe them

Getting on the radio, and not wasting it

The group chat

Using the IHRA working definition

Speaking out loud to a room

Making something capable of spreading

Writing to your representative so it counts

Writing a press release, before and after

Using AI in your campaigning

Speaking on television

The 7 October attacks: what you can state, and what to leave alone

What antisemitism looks like now

Talking with a disaffected Zionist

Talking with progressives

Talking with conservatives

Talking with centrists

The Hamas charter: quoting it accurately

Talking to your children

What is findable about you

A week or so

How to find out the law where you are

Choosing the format, the place and the time

Placards, banners and chants that work

The debrief, and what to do next

Starting a group from nothing

Running a vigil

Postering

The member everybody works around

When coverage gets it wrong

Writing and placing an opinion piece

A few weeks

What the venue asks for before it says yes

Money, for a group with no money

When a BDS motion lands in a body you belong to

Working with other organisations

After you report it

Raising it formally with your institution

Meeting your representative face to face

When you want to stop running it

Founding a society where there is not one

Ongoing commitment

A society that outlasts you

Bringing in people who are not convinced

How a small account gets seen

X, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok, platform by platform

How often to post, and for how long

Who has already done this

Where are you campaigning?

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Where to look

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