Jesus College JCR

Statement by the JCR regarding the crisis in the Middle East

Choose a career that MATTERS.

If you’re looking for a meaningful career, come along to the Careers with Social Impact event to explore a range of public sector careers and find out first-hand what a career in the public sector is really like.

You’ll hear from an Oxford alumnus about their journey into social work on the Frontline programme and how they have used and developed their skills to make a difference to disadvantaged children and families.

This is a virtual event on Tuesday 19th October, 1-2pm.

Register to attend here: https://www.careers.ox.ac.uk/term-planner?utm_source=Oxford&utm_medium=partner+social&utm_campaign=2022+recruitment+campaign&utm_content=event -2282196

Please sign and share the petition to allow all university students to return at the start of this term https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/582345
Image description:
Green graphics displaying messages supporting students' return to university being prioritized by the UK government.
1: Silhouette of graduation cap behind text that reads "our turn to return"
2: text reading 'why is non- essential retail more important than our education?"
3: text reading: we don't want to go to a salon, theme park, or zoo, we want to go to university
4: text reading 'petition to allow all students in higher education to return from the beginning of next term

Happy International Women's day everyone!

Regarding The Actions of St Peters in Handling Antisemitism After the Invitation of Ken Loach

We condemn in the strongest terms the decision of St Peter’s College and its Master regarding the invitation of Ken Loach and the handling of concerns raised by Jewish Students at St Peter’s. We abhor the failure to contextualise the speaker that was invited, recognise his known antisemitic comments, as well as the decision to disregard the welfare of St Peter’s College Jewish students in favour of preventing a PR disaster. We wholeheartedly support the response of St Peter’s JCR to this event and echo its belief that ‘it is impossible to separate Ken Loach’s filmmaking from his views, including his history of antisemitic remarks’. Furthermore, we recognise that ‘a free and open academic community is mutually exclusive with the platforming of individuals whose bigoted views cause active harm to others on account of their protected characteristics’. We support the right for St Peter’s College students to challenge antisemitism and believe that in failing to acknowledge the harm that hosting this event has caused, St Peter’s College leadership has failed in its duty of care to its Jewish students.

Jesus College JCR will always stand with victims of discrimination and protect the welfare of students in Oxford; we firmly believe that antisemitism must not be tolerated at the University of Oxford and in wider society. We recognise that the erroneous actions of St Peter’s College leadership has led to an exorbitant amount of antisemitic abuse targeted at Oxford University Jewish Society’s social media pages, resulting in students being threatened for condemning antisemitism, and forcing many of them to read and moderate these comments themselves. We urge everyone to read their statement on the matter.

We do not feel that this statement is enough, and so in addition to pledging our active support to all Jewish students who have been let down by St Peter’s College and by the university, we are obtaining antisemitism awareness sessions for our JCR so that we can better support our Jewish students.

We stand in solidarity with the Jewish students at St Peter’s and at Oxford in the face of endemic antisemitism.

Signed, The Jesus College JCR

A statement from the JCR

plain text version: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YoqG6_CmR3kTH_ERMdnK-D8H9EeubFYzWpCQfHMKbtM/edit?usp=sharing

Some highlights from the Turl Street Arts Festival - well done to all the talented musicians, artists and writers involved!

Huge congratulations to the Jesus 2’s for making it to the cup finals🥳

Some delicious shots from the Jesus College Sustainable Bake Off yesterday 😍

Work on Northgate House is still in progress - watch this video to find out what some current students think about the project:

Jesus College Students Respond to Northgate In 2021, as we celebrate our 450th year, Jesus College will open a landmark new building in the heart of Oxford. Our biggest physical transformation since th...