KeshetUK forced to withdraw from Pride in London 2025

• It is with regret that KeshetUK is not able to organise the Jewish bloc at Pride in 2025, after Pride in London failed to support our minority community.

• KeshetUK asked for assurances of safety for British Jews marching at Pride, informed by antisemitism awareness training, which was rejected, as were all other asks.

• KeshetUK has been organising the Jewish bloc at Pride in London for nearly a decade.

It is with sadness that that KeshetUK announces it will not be organising the Jewish bloc for Pride in London 2025.

After we felt unable to attend in 2024, we asked for dialogue with Pride in London. We wanted to engage in good faith, open-minded discussions to find solutions to our concerns.

We emailed initially in July 2024. This went unanswered until early-2025, and we finally met a few weeks ago.

We shared our concerns in a spirit of open dialogue, and made reasonable requests, including antisemitism awareness training for the stewards. We were simply looking for reassurance that British Jews would be physically and psychologically safe at the event amidst rapidly rising antisemitism and LGBT+ related hate crime in the UK.

Our requests were turned down. After various failures from Pride in London, we feel unable to say to British Jews that Pride in London has done everything in their power to keep us safe. We desperately wish this was not the case.

As such, KeshetUK feel forced to withdraw from Pride in London this year. We are enormously sad that, on a day that should be an affirmation and celebration of our dual identities as Jews and as LGBT+ people, we would not feel comfortable to be part of Pride.

We are aware that other Jewish LGBT+ groups are planning alternative events on the day of Pride in London and will be sharing details of those when they are released.

We hope to be able to march in Pride in London again in future years, but will only do so if we receive the reassurance that we as a vulnerable minority feel we deserve and are entitled to.

A KeshetUK spokesperson, said "British LGBT+ Jews deserve the space to celebrate our identity alongside all other LGBT+ people in the UK. We are hugely disappointed in Pride in London. We hope that Pride in London will reflect on the fact that, for two years now, KeshetUK has felt forced to withdraw. We hope that we can receive the necessary reassurances to allow us to return in future years".