Meeting for Learning at Disley: Challenging Anti-Semitism

Sunday, 15. February 2026 - 12:00 to 13:00
Disley Quaker Meeting House

Elders are inviting you to reflect together on the new Challenging Antisemitism guide recently published by Friends House at our next meeting for exploration on 15 February 2026 after meeting for worship.

 

The guide is available online:

https://www.quaker.org.uk/blog/challenging-antisemitism-a-new-guide-for-quakers

 

This meeting for exploration is in preparation for the topic at Area Meeting in March.

 

I intend to offer this session as worship sharing on issues the guide brings for us individually and may lead us reflect how we might want to respond as a community. If you have any questions about the guide that you think might require research or clarification, I would be grateful if you could send to me beforehand so that I can prepare. Thank you.

 

 

Till Geiger (for Disley Elders)

Quakers publish guide to help challenge antisemitism

Quakers publish guide to help challenge antisemitism

Recent attacks in Heaton Park, Manchester, and on Bondi Beach, Sydney, have underlined the deadly consequences of antisemitism. 

Quakers in Britain recognise that their faith community need to do more on the issue. In response, they have produced a guide to help Quakers recognise and challenge antisemitism.

Printed copies have been sent to every local meeting, with further copies available to order and a digital version online.

The guide outlines the history of antisemitism and how it has taken different forms around the world. 

It highlights common stereotypes, such as portraying Jews as unusually wealthy or powerful, or, paradoxically, as an underclass. It also explains how these ideas persist in Britain today.

Practical guidance is included on how to challenge antisemitism and how to respond if someone is accused. 

The guide does not provide definitive lists of what does and does not constitute antisemitic behaviour and language.

Context and the experience of those affected are central, and as a predominantly non-Jewish faith, Quakers do not claim authority to define antisemitism.

Drafting of the guide involved extensive consultation with Jewish people and those who challenge antisemitism.

Views sometimes differed sharply, particularly around definitions such as the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance working definition and the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism. The guide sets out these tensions rather than endorsing one.

Quakers say the resource may be especially useful in interfaith work, managing meeting house lettings, and navigating expressions of support for Palestine.

 

You can download the guide from this page.

Attachments: 
PDF icon challenging-antisemitism.pdf

Britain Yearly Meeting

Friday, 1. May 2026 - 16:45 to Monday, 4. May 2026 - 16:45
Friends House, London and Online

Yearly Meeting 2026

 

Yearly Meeting will meet from 1–4 May 2026 in Friends House and online. Everyone in our Quaker community is welcome to join, whether a member or not. There will be programmes for children and young people.

Online preparation sessions will take place between 13 and 17 April. These are to help prepare our hearts and minds for the discernment at Yearly Meeting.

From 20 to 26 March Quaker Recognised Bodies and Yearly Meeting central committees and programmes will offer a wide range of online meetings. 

To attend any of these, book to attend Yearly Meeting.

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Bridget Dunbar

ECAM Meeting for Worship for Business

Saturday, 14. March 2026 - 10:30 to 14:00
Wilmslow Quaker Meeting House

East Cheshire Area Meeting - Meeting for Worship for Business. 

10:30am followed by lunch.

 

Friday Disley Online worship

Friday, 20. February 2026 - 19:30 to 20:15
Zoom

Disley Quakers hold a Meeting for Worship on the third Friday of each month on Zoom. We meet between 19:30 and 20:15. The host opens the meeting at 19:20 and we share a brief greeting with each other, checking in on each other before we settle into worship at 19:30. After the meeting we chat for a while about any ministry from the meeting or about ministry that was not shared in the meeting. All are welcome to join us.

Available via the usual Zoom link (under Find Us on the Disley main page).

 

 

Meet the Quakers

Saturday, 7. February 2026 - 13:00 to 16:00
Wilmslow Quaker Meeting House

 

  Meet the Quakers

East Cheshire Quakers’ Attenders; Enquirers Afternoon

Wilmslow Quaker Meeting House

1a Bourne Street, Wilmslow, SK9 5HD

Saturday February 7 th 1.00 for 1.45pm

We hope this will provide an opportunity for any Friend or newcomer to explore your own

and other people’s experiences of Quaker Meeting, and what it leads Friends to do. All are

welcome….please bring your friends too!



(Children welcome too – please contact Frances on 07913735040 if bringing

children, and we will arrange age appropriate activities with DBS verified adults)

1.00 Soup(+)/coffee/tea on arrival (table of books out too)

1.45 Welcome and Introduction

2pm Panel: 3 Quakers and their experiences

What do I do in Quaker Meeting for Worship? /

Why did I first come to Quaker meeting and what did I find?

Why do I now come to Quaker Meeting for Worship?

2.20 Chance to share, following theme in groups as needed.

2.50pm Panel: 3 Quakers with 5-7 minutes each

What does Quaker Meeting make me do? / help me do?

3.10 Chance to share, following theme as above.

3.30 Plenary Questions and Answers session

3.50 Closing Meeting for Worship

4.00 Light refreshments

 

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