14 October 2026 | 6:30 – 10 pm | Doors open at 6:00 pm
London | East End (Venue details will be shared upon registration)
With: Iman Atta (TELL MAMA/ Faith Matters), Colin Tourick (Community Security Trust), Zachary Schaffer (Project Shema), Julie Siddiqi (Together Coalition)
Moderated by: Mohammed Ali Amla (Solutions Not Sides)
Antisemitism and anti-Muslim racism are too often treated as separate problems – or, worse, pitted against one another, with one invoked to excuse or deflect from the other. Both have risen sharply across Europe in recent years, precisely as many societies are retreating from their commitment to pluralism and political forces are increasingly challenging the idea that diversity is a democratic good worth protecting.
This raises an uncomfortable question: What happens when forms of hatred are played off against each other in public debate – and what is lost for the communities caught in between? Bringing together practitioners and experts from Jewish and Muslim communities and wider civil society, this panel will examine what protection, resilience, and solidarity look like in practice. How are communities responding to concrete threats? Which institutional and political strategies are effective? And what does it take to build alliances between communities whose experiences of exclusion do not simply mirror one another?
Taking the UK as a point of departure, the discussion will explore how these tensions play out on the ground – and what they demand of communities, civil society, and public institutions.
We warmly invite you to join us for this conversation and to consider what defending pluralism requires of all of us today.
About the organisers
The European Practitioners Network Against Antisemitism (EPNA) connects more than 100 institutions working to combat antisemitism across Europe and beyond. It promotes international cooperation, facilitates the exchange of expertise and experience, and supports its members in developing effective, practice-based prevention strategies.
The Future 500 programme brings together emerging leaders from politics, business, academia, the arts, and civil society. Through international interreligious, worldview, and intercultural dialogue, participants develop and implement concrete initiatives that strengthen social cohesion across Europe.
Both programmes are part of DialoguePerspectives e.V., a Berlin-based European platform working to strengthen pluralistic and resilient societies. Its work focuses on interreligious and worldview dialogue, combating antisemitism, developing a pluralistic European culture of remembrance, and communicating contemporary Jewish life through educational programmes across Germany.