CEJI - A Jewish Contribution to an Inclusive Europe

CEJI – A Jewish Contribution to an Inclusive Europe (also known as CEJI)[1] is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) based in Brussels, Belgium. Established in 1991, the organisation's areas of expertise include: education; inclusion and social cohesion; discrimination and xenophobia; hate speech and hate crime; media and digital literacy.[2] It also provides anti-discrimination training to teachers, social workers and others.[1] The organisation recently launched a series of online courses ('Facing Facts') on hate crimes with support from Google, Facebook and Twitter that provide 'tools to educators, activists and other professionals to identify and combat hate speech'.[3]

Current work

Diversity Education

CEJI has created education and training programmes, the aim of which is to "enhance appreciation of Europe’s diversity including Jews, Roma, Muslims, gays and lesbians, etc."[4] The current training programmes offered by CEJI, in a partnership entitled 'Belieforama', include:

Engaging Jewish Communities

In addition to its Overcoming Antisemitism programme, CEJI also runs a series of programmes specifically for the Jewish community:

  • Facing Facts! aims to improve monitoring and recording of hate crimes throughout the European Union. The project standardizes criteria for comparable hate crime data collection and works to train civil society organisations to gather, analyze and report incidents of hate crime and hate speech, be they anti-Jewish, anti-Roma, anti-homosexual or other.

Advocacy

CEJI's aim is to contribute to policy-making processes dealing with antisemitism, racism, xenophobia, discrimination and diversity education at the institutions of the European Union, the OSCE, the Council of Europe and within the wider spectrum of European organisations and networks active in these areas.

Related to this advocacy work is Facing Facts!, a project to improve monitoring and recording of hate crimes throughout the European Union by standardising criteria for comparable hate crime data collection. CEJI trains civil society organisations to gather, analyze and report incidents of hate crime and hate speech, be they anti-Jewish, anti-Roma, anti-homosexual or other.

Intercultural Dialogue

Interfaith and intercultural dialogue are key aspects of CEJI's work. According to CEJI: "the dialogue approach is particularly pertinent to relations between Muslim and Jewish communities, which have been greatly affected by the volatile political climate of recent years".[5] CEJI offers training courses in both 'Overcoming Antisemitism' and 'Overcoming Islamophobia', often run as a combined training course.

Partnerships

CEJI partnership and membership organizations.[5]

Partner organizations
  • American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
  • Anti-Defamation League – United States
  • Association pour la Rénovation des Etablissements Scolaires (ARES) – France
  • BMW Responsible Leaders Network
  • B’nai B’rith Europe
  • Campaign Against Homophobia (KPH) – Poland
  • Center for Independent Journalism (CIJ)
  • Centre Bruxellois d’Action Interculturelle (CBAI) – Belgium
  • Centre Communautaire Laïc Juif – Belgium
  • Centre pour l’égalité des chances et la lutte contre le racisme – Belgium
  • Centre Régional de Verviers pour l’Intégration
  • Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe
  • CIDI – Dutch Centre for Documentation and Information on Israel (The Netherlands)
  • COC – Federation of Dutch Associations for the Integration of Homosexuality (The Netherlands)
  • CST London – The Community Security Trust (UK)
  • Dispositif de concertation et d’appui aux Centres Régionaux d’Intégration (DISCRI)
  • Eine Welt der Vielfalt – Germany
  • European Muslim Initiative for Social Cohesion (EMISCO)
  • European Association for Jewish Culture
  • European Council of Jewish Communities
  • European Network Against Racism (ENAR)
  • ENAR Ireland
  • European Jewish Community Center (EJCC)
  • European Network on Independent Living (ENIL)
  • European Network on Religion and Belief (ENORB)
  • European Peer Training Organisation (EPTO)
  • European Platform on Religious Intolerance and Discrimination (EPRID)
  • European Roma Information Office
  • European Roma Rights Centre
  • European Social Platform
  • European Union of Jewish Students (EUJS)
  • Fonds Maribel – Belgium
  • Generation
  • The Grail
  • Haut Ecole de la Communauté française en Hainaut – Belgium
  • Haver Informal Jewish Educational Public Benefit Foundation; Hungary
  • ILGA Europe
  • Institut for Criminal Policy Research (ICPR)
  • Instituto de Asuntos Culturales, Spain
  • Interfederal Centre for Equal Opportunities (UNIA) – Belgium
  • International Center for Journalists (ICFJ)
  • International Council of Jewish Women
  • The International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism / Ligue Internationale Contre le Racisme et l’Antisémitisme (LICRA)
  • International Lesbian and Gay Association (mo) Europe
  • Inter-parliamentary Coalition for Combating Antisemitism (ICCA)
  • Institute of Cultural Affairs (ICA)
  • Institutul Intercultural Timișoara
  • Justice 21 Association
  • La Ligue de l’enseignement du Calvados – France
  • Learning for Wellbeing Foundation
  • Magenta Foundation – The Netherlands
  • Mazsihisz
  • Media Diversity Institute (MDI)
  • Minyanim
  • Movimiento Contra Intolerancia
  • Multi-Faith Centre, University of Derby – UK
  • National Police Chiefs’ Council
  • Nordic Jewish Security Council
  • National University of Public Service – Hungary
  • Osservatorio per la sicurezza contro gli atti discriminatori – OSCAD
  • Partners Bulgaria Foundation – Bulgaria
  • Praksis – Greece
  • Symbiosis
  • Terezín Initiative Institute
  • World Congress of Imams and Rabbis for Peace

CEJI memberships
  • European Network Against Racism (ENAR)
  • European Network on Religion and Belief (ENORB)
  • European Peer Training Organisation (EPTO)
  • European Platform on Religious Intolerance and Discrimination (EPRID)
  • International Network Against Cyber Hate

Funders

Publications

References
  1. Yardley, Jim. "Europe’s Anti-Semitism Comes Out of the Shadows", The New York Times, Saracelles, 23 September 2014. Retrieved on 1 May 2019.
  2. https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/what-we-do/networks/radicalisation_awareness_network/civil-society-empowerment-programme/csep_db-467_en
  3. JTA. "EU can fight anti-Semitism without defining it, official says", The Times of Israel, Brussels, 9 December 2016. Retrieved on 13 May 2019.
  4. "CEJI – A Jewish Contribution to an Inclusive Europe" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-12-08. Retrieved 2014-09-04.
  5. "CEJI website".

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