(JNS) A new international alliance has been formed to battle the uptick in antisemitism on a global level.

The J7 Global Task Force Against Antisemitism will unite leaders from the world's most significant Jewish communities to devise coordinated strategies, discuss mutual challenges, and share best practices.

The new entity will meet virtually and in person, with one gathering scheduled for March 2024 at the Anti-Defamation League (ADL's) “Never Is Now” summit. 

Participants include the Board of Deputies of British Jews; the Conseil Représentatif des Institutions Juives de France (CRIF); the Central Council of Jews in Germany; Canada’s Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA); Argentina’s Delegación de Asociaciones Israelitas Argentinas (DAIA); the Executive Council of Australian Jewry; the ADL; and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.

Marie van der Zyl, president of the Board of Deputies said: “Antisemitism knows no geographic boundaries.  

Marie van der Zyl

Marie van der Zyl (Photo: Handout)

“The Board of Deputies looks forward to being part of this international coalition of leading Jewish organisations, each at the forefront of the fight against the challenges posed by the rise of this global hatred. 

“By working together, we strengthen our ability to tackle antisemitism wherever it emerges.”

Jonathan Greenblatt, national director of the ADL, said: "This new coalition of major organisations representing seven large Jewish Diaspora communities in liberal democracies will provide a formal framework for coordination, consultation and formulating global responses to antisemitic threats against the Jewish people.”

CRIF executive director Robert J. Ejnes, said “if antisemitism exists everywhere in the world, it is in Europe that it has been brought to its climax.”

He emphasised a broad targeting against Jew-hatred “in all its forms—whether Islamist, conspiratorial, hatred of Israel or Holocaust denial, from wherever it originates.”