The English city where volunteers go door-to-door asking people to stop buying Israeli products | UK News
“People might genuinely ask us if we’re antisemitic or racist,” says Seymour as he briefs a crowd preparing to go door-to-door asking people to boycott Israeli goods. “I know that can be a shocking question to get if you’re motivated by anti-racism. But treat it as an honest question,” he tells the group gathered in the centre of Brighton. Seymour – he doesn’t want to give his second name – is one of the organisers of a grassroots initiative to create what they’re calling an apartheid-free zone in Brighton and Hove. They’ve come together to express solidarity with the Palestinian people, but the accusation of many in Brighton’s Jewish community is that the actions of the group could encourage antisemitism. Image: Seymour is one of the campaigners hoping to create an ‘apartheid-free zone’ in Brighton The volunteers break off into smaller groups and head off around the streets of Brighton city centre. Working their way down a list of addresses, we watch as a volunteer knocks on a door, explaining he’s trying to get people …
