Mansion House and Guildhall Meetings

The initial meeting, held in 1840, denounced the blood libel accusation against Jews in Damascus and received favorable responses from foreign powers.

Subsequent meetings in 1882 and 1890, supported by influential figures including religious leaders, scientists, and politicians, protested against anti-Jewish pogroms in the Russian Empire.

Consequently, a requisition was made for a Mansion House Meeting, which garnered the support of thirty-eight signatories, including the Archbishop of Canterbury, Cardinal Manning, Charles Darwin, John Tyndall, and eighteen Members of Parliament.

The committee actively participated in conferences addressing the plight of Russian Jews and played a role in founding agricultural colonies in locations such as Moosomin, Saskatchewan,[2] Painted Woods, North Dakota, Vineland, New Jersey, and elsewhere.

The requisition for a third Guildhall Meeting of December 10, 1890, was signed by eighty-three individuals, once again led by the Archbishop of Canterbury and Cardinal Manning.

It affirmed, That in the opinion of this meeting the renewed sufferings of the Jews in Russia from the operation of severe and exceptional edicts and disabilities are deeply to be deplored, and that in this last decade of the nineteenth century religious liberty is a principle which should be recognized by every Christian community as among the natural human rights.In the name of the citizens of London, a memorandum was sent to the Russian czar, appealing for political and social equality for Jews in Russia.