Jewish Labor Committee

JLC members and friends at April 30, 2026 anti-ICE rally in lower Manhattan.
l-r: Micah Landau, Michael Simon, Jonathan Taubes, Ralph Seliger, Arieh Lebowitz and Michael Feinberg.
Photo courtesy Paul Margolis.

This spring, the Jewish Labor Committee stood as part of broad Jewish coalitions demanding ICE out of our schools, workplaces, places of worship, and communities. From February’s Jews Against ICE action in Washington, D.C. to the April 30th Day of Action, JLC members have shown up because immigrant justice, workers’ rights, Jewish safety, and democracy are inseparable.

The JLC is part of a large and diverse movement, that includes secular and religious Jews, the labor movement, immigrants’ rights and civil rights groups -- all united to reject ICE’s brutality and violence, and to oppose ICE’s human and civil rights abuses, and fundamentally, get ICE’s abuses out of our cities and communities. Working together, we will continue to help bridge campaigns to end ICE detention camps and the unholy deportation machine now wreaking havoc on those least able to defend themselves against it.

The JLC was founded in the 1930s in response to the rise of Nazism in Germany, and fascism and other anti-democratic movements in Europe and elsewhere. History teaches us that fear and scapegoating are tools used to divide working people and their families, weaken unions, target minorities, and erode democracy. Our answer remains solidarity, collective action, and the insistence, born from our history, that Jewish security, democratic rights, and workers’ rights go hand in hand. This is what solidarity demands, and this is how we defend one another.

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