Israel is preparing to celebrate its seventy-eighth anniversary. For many Jews around the world, this event is still experienced as a miracle: seeing this state continue to develop despite a generally hostile environment, and remaining for them a kind of life insurance—especially in recent years, as they face a wave of antisemitism unprecedented since 1945…
Israeli settlers attack the West Bank village of Turmus Ayya on June 26, 2025.(© Oren Ziv/B’Tselem/ActiveStills) On March 14, a Palestinian family lost their lives in the West Bank when their car was riddled with bullets by Israeli soldiers who claimed they felt threatened. A couple and their two children succumbed to their injuries,…
On February 18 th , 2 Israeli visions were laid out at a UN security council meeting about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Nadav Tamir, former Israeli consul in Boston, former senior adviser to President Shimon Peres and current Executive Director at J Street Israel, defended the vision of a two-state solution based on territorial compromise with…
The government of Israel, and in particular the Diaspora Affairs Minister Chikli, is promoting an international Conference to combat anti-Semitism for the second year running on January 27th. This decision comes in the context of a serious resurgence of violent attitudes and acts directed against Jewish individuals and institutions in several European countries. Yet we…
In April 2010, we founded JCall, a shift in opinion determined to rise above partisan divisions, the ambition of which was to gather European Jewish citizens and Israel’s friends…
Israel is preparing to celebrate its seventy-eighth anniversary. For many Jews around the world, this event is still experienced as a miracle: seeing this state…
Israeli settlers attack the West Bank village of Turmus Ayya on June 26, 2025.(© Oren Ziv/B’Tselem/ActiveStills) On March 14, a Palestinian family lost their…
On February 18 th , 2 Israeli visions were laid out at a UN security council meeting about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Nadav Tamir, former Israeli…
The government of Israel, and in particular the Diaspora Affairs Minister Chikli, is promoting an international Conference to combat anti-Semitism for the second year running…
The photo of Ran Gvili, the last hostage, displayed on chairs in Hostages Square in Tel Aviv For 843 days, Israeli society lived to…
Aharon Barak, the former president of the Supreme Court, addressing protesters on January 3 in Tel Aviv The recent ban on entry into Israel…
Image taken from the evening news of Friday October 24, 2025 from channel 12 On November 4, 1995, at the end of a rally…
Drawing by Kichka The traditional wish expressed during the celebration of Rosh Hashanah — “May the year that ends take away all its troubles,…
September 9th, 2025 On May 19, 2020 J-Link was joined by 50 Jewish organizations from 17 Countries, to petition Israel to avoid a tragic mistake…
Drawing by Kichka In the 1970s, Nahum Goldmann, the former president of the World Jewish Congress, told me that if the vote on the…
A first warning, of a historical nature. Israel was not born in sin; it was not merely a refuge from antisemitic racism culminating in the…
Sunday August 17 Israel stops! On Thursday, August 7, 2025, following a proposal by the Prime Minister, twenty-two months after the start of a…
Demonstrators, in Habima Square in Tel Aviv on Saturday July 26, carrying signs with the name, age, photo, or drawing of a flower in memory…
For his first election campaign in 1996, Benjamin Netanyahu enlisted the help of Arthur Finkelstein, the Republican strategist behind many victorious U.S. campaigns. Finkelstein’s influence…
Article written before the bombing carried out by American aircraft on Iranian nuclear sites and therefore before the ceasefire. In our previous newsletter, I…
Statement from Commanders for Israel’s Security (CIS) As Commanders for Israel’s Security (CIS), a movement of over 550 retired senior officials from Israel’s defense, security…
Israeli protesters carrying photos of Palestinian children killed in Gaza during the demonstration Saturday June 7 in Tel Aviv. Photo Roy Schwartz In the…
We, the leaders of La Paix Maintenant and JCall, have long called for the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside Israel since the creation of…
As Israel just commemorated Yom Hashoa, today’s Jews are facing another danger, beyond the role of universal scapegoats, that has been used by different political…
The Israeli government’s security cabinet has just unanimously approved the expansion of military activity in Gaza. One may wonder, after more than eighteen months of…
To the question asked by children on the evening of the Seder, “Ma Nishtana HaLaïla Hazeh” – Why is this night different from all other…
Community members hold signs and rally in front of the Department of Education to protest budget cuts on March 13, 2025 in Washington, DC. –…
Ten of thousands of people demonstrate in the pouring rain in Jerusalem on March 20 The house is burning. Yes, our house—Israel—is burning. And…
Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella, of the National Rally, at the March against anti-Semitism in Paris, November 12, 2023. (Credit: Geoffroy VAN DER…
Demonstration Monday February 17 at Hostage square in Tel Aviv. On the screen : “500th day fast. Get us out of hell“ On Monday,…
On Monday, March 3 at 8:00 PM, we will host, at the premises of Beit Tarbout Tsavta*, in collaboration with La Paix Maintenant, Marius Schattner…
On the occasion of the November presidential election, the CGAO conducted an in-depth survey on the voting behavior of American Jews, providing valuable insights into…
Drawing by Kichka Real estate developer Donald Trump has come up with a solution to one of the most complex challenges facing the new…
The current majority in power in Israel holds the support of 68 Knesset members, ensuring stability that could allow it to govern until the end…
Two images will mark the history of early 2025: one of Donald Trump signing hundreds of executive orders in front of his audience to show…
Drawing by Kichka “They make me the guard of dishonor The decision made by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to issue an arrest warrant…
We, the undersigned international Jewish organisations, call for an immediate cessation of hostilities in Gaza and the release of the Israeli hostages followed by diplomatic…
Two weeks before the American elections, decisive for the future of the country and the world, the American Jewish community is gripped by fears never…
drawing by Eren Valkovski in Haaretz October, 18 translation : Herzi Halevi, the chief of staff :”that’s it, it’s over” Netanyahou : “What, what idea!”…
It is customary on Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, to wish that the departing year takes its curses with it and that the coming…
The Israel-Hamas war revealed rifts within the Democratic Party, which the Republican Party (GOP) tried to exploit, though with relatively little success for the time…
Protest in Kaplan street on Sunday night, September 1st Almog Sarusi, Alex Lobanov, Carmel Gat, Eden Yerushalmi, Ori Danino, and Hersh Goldberg-Polin were brutally…
What Macron, Biden and Netanyahu have in common As Israel plunges into war and international isolation, France enters a period of major political instability, and…
drawing by Kichka France is going through crucial hours. Parliamentary elections on June 30th and July 7th might bring an extreme right government to…
“It’s time for this war to end and for the day after to begin” It was with these words that President Biden concluded his speech…
The pro-Palestinian demonstrations in European and American universities, one of which recently attempted to prevent Elie Barnavi from attending a conference at the Université…
As May is the month where parents are celebrated in the calendar, with Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, one cannot help but wonder whether the…
Images of pro-Palestinian students blocking the entrance of American or Sciences Po campuses in Paris make headlines these last days. It may be a minority…
For several weeks, demonstrations gathering tens of thousands of Israelis call for elections. But they have not reached yet the extent of those against the…
As Trump and Biden have just officially won their party primaries, a recent poll showed that Israelis favored Trump over Biden, at 44% to 30%,…
On March 3rd, Kamala Harris delivered harsh remarks on Israel on the Edward Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, one of the most significant sites for…
During the last five months—and even more—time has stopped all over the world for Israelis and Jewish citizens committed to Israel’s existence. The clock hand…
Dessin de Kichka The two hostages’s rescue by the Israeli army has given us as much relief as the entire Israeli population. In spite…
The upcoming 2024 U.S. presidential election will primarily focus on domestic issues, as with its predecessors. However, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict may play a prominent role…
More than 3 months after the start of the Gaza war, more and more voices around the world are calling for a ceasefire. While we…
The impact of Biden’s support for Israel on his reelection prospects in 2024 is uncertain. While he has shown strong backing for Israel during the…
More than three months after the war against Hamas started, following the atrocious murders and rapes it had committed on October 7th, IDF forces intensify…
These last seven days it has been difficult to think, to understand and even to imagine the horror people living in the kibbutzim and the…
Fifty years after the sneak attack on Yom Kippur of the Egyptian and Syrian armies along the Suez canal and on the Golan Heights, the…
The summer interlude is coming to an end. In Israel, there was no pause, neither in the offensive of the ruling coalition nor in the…
Israelis and Palestinians committed together to the two-state solution… They do exist! Come and meet them on Tuesday, May 30th, 8:30 p.m. at the Cercle…
Today Israel celebrate its seventy-fifth anniversary. Like every year, Yom Haatsmaut close this parenthesis loaded with symbols, calling for national unity rather than partisan divisions.…
Recording of the conference, we had organized in the European Parliament on March 27th with the Jewish Secular Community Center of Brussels (CCLJ David Susskind).…
Just two months after the establishment of the 6th Netanyahu government, Israel has never been so divided. For more than a month, week after week,…
Next JCall’s conference will be held in The European Parliament on March, 27th 6:30 pm with the participation of : Elie Barnavi, historian, former Israeli ambassador…
The Israeli liberal democracy is undermined. The sixth Netanyahu government represents more than a simple transfer of power in a normal parliamentary democracy ; it is…
To attend the conference “To save the Israeli democracy” we organize jointly with the Jewish secular community centre (CCLJ) at the European Parliament on Monday…
“Will we then have a theocracy? No: faith makes us united, science makes us free. We will by no means allow the theocratic ambitions of…
Amos Oz, the great Israeli writer, argued in a commentary a few years ago that to put an end to the conflict gripping the two…
Once again, an attack has striken Israel. At the entrance of Shabbat, a Palestinian from East Jerusalem shot at the faithful going out of a…
In 2010, we launched The founding Appeal of JCall because, as European Jewish citizens, we were deeply concerned for Israel’s existence. We wrote that “underestimating…
On November 1st, Israelis will go to the polls for the fifth time within three years and a half. One week later, it will be…
We remember the movie Groundhog Day where the hero is condemned each morning, when he wakes up, to live again the same day, being the…
August 20, 2022 Dear J-Link Supporters In October 2021, Defense Minister Benny Gantz declared that six Palestinian Civil Society organizations working in the West Bank…
The Bennet-Lapid government will have lasted only one year. The continued attacks of the opposition led by the Likud in order to bring it down…
J-Link is an international progressive Jewish network dedicated to promoting peace, human rights, and democracy. The past few weeks have shocked the world as we…
Conference Tuesday March15 at 8:30p.m. (French time) The current events in Ukraine are the culmination of a project conceived and carefully prepared by Putin for…
As members of JCall and La Paix Maintenant, we have always affirmed our total—but critical—solidarity towards the State of Israel, taking action whenever its right…
Conference Tuesday February 15 at 7p.m. (French time) We remember former Prime Minister Golda Meir joking with her German counterpart, complaining that « Moses took…
Among all the Middle East photos we will remember from 2021, we chose the one showing Mansour Abbas, leader of the Islamic party Raam, signing…
26 October 2021 Dear Minister Benny Gantz, J-Link, a broad international network of progressive Jewish organizations, approached you in May 2020, then as Chairman of…
Olive trees uprooted by settlers In 2010, we launched our JCall appeal with a main goal, that of making Jewish European citizens aware of the…
drawing from Kichka After a long summer break, we resume sending our newsletters. After flipping through the 17 newsletters issued the previous year, it appears…
After two years and a half of political crisis and four elections that have all ended in Netanyahu’s failure to form a right wing government,…
After 11 days of war, Hamas and Israel accepted a cease-fire that put an end to this new round of violence, the sixth one since…
rockets launched on the center of Israel During the last 3 days, Hamas already launched hundreds of rockets on Israel and incendiary balloons on fields…
drawing by Biderman Haaretz Netanyahu has not been able to form a government after the four weeks granted by President Reuven Rivlin. In spite of…
drawing by Biderman Haaretz On April 5th, President Rivlin received the delegations of the 13 lists that crossed the minimum electoral threshhold, in order to…
Open letter to Mr. Reuven Rivlin, President of the State of Israel Sunday 4 April Dear President Rivlin, J-Link, the international network of progressive Jewish…
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Could we apply Einstein’s quote to the electoral situation in Israel ?…
J-Link, the international network of progressive Jewish organizations, joins Israeli NGO’s and international organizations in advocating that Israel supply COVID vaccines to Palestinians in the…
Drawing from Biderman in Ha’aretz. It is written on the sign : “I am the 4000th dead” In two months, Israel will vote again for…
First conference organized by J-Link on Sunday 17 January 7pm (French time) on a Jewish-Arab Israeli Political Party in the Making for the next elections…
Donald Trump needed more than 3 weeks to admit Joe Biden’s victory, and even so, he keeps saying that the election had been fraudulent, which…
November 11, 2020 Dear President-Elect Biden and Vice-President-Elect Harris: J-Link, an international network of progressive Jewish organizations, congratulates you on your election. We wish you…
The day after the American election, we face the scenario many observers feared. It is impossible so far to name a winner even though both…
No US election has ever been as significant as this one. Not so much for the Middle East—where we can expect, if Joe Biden wins,…
Zoom conference on October 20th at 7p.m. (Paris time) with Jean-Pierre Filiu, Dominique Moisi and Daniel Shek Are the standardization agreements signed in Washington last…
Samuel Paty’s horrendous murder stunned all of us by its unspeakable barbarism and shocked JCall’s members as well as all the French. Beyond the pain…
Zoom meeting on September 22nd at 7p.m. (Paris time) with David Ben Ishay, Dr Eric Setton and Denis Charbit (in French without translation in English)…
For the tenth week in a row, tens of thousands of Israelis demonstrated last Saturday on Balfour Street in Jerusalem, in front of the Prime…
J-Link, the international network of progressive Jewish organizations, welcomes the agreement reached between Israel and the United Arab Emirates to normalize ties between the two…
After 3 elections in less than a year and the establishment of a Union Government supported by 75 deputees, in order to face the epidemy…
Zeev Sternhell left us last Sunday. Tireless peace activist, Archi-Zionist, as he liked to qualify himself, Zeev Sternhell was one of our godfathers. Historian of…
Le Monde publishes in its June 19 edition an op-ed against the annexation of part of the West Bank, signed by Dany Cohn-Bendit, Alain Finkielkraut,…
Meeting of the High Court on May, 3th. If the coalition agreements signed by the Likud and he Blue White list are validated by the…
As members and supporters of J-Link, the international network of progressive Jewish organizations, we urgently share our deep concerns, backed by the analysis of diplomatic…
April 14, 2020 Dear Benny Gantz, Chairman of the Knesset, Passover is a time for Jews to reflect on our commitment to freedom, justice, security,…
Sending you a newsletter at this difficult time is first of all a message of hope. Hoping that we will overcome this crisis, and that…
A few hours before the third round of elections within a year, the political situation seems as blocked as ever in Israel. According to the…
We are a diverse coalition of Jewish organisations and individuals from communities across the globe. We share a commitment to the Jewish values of justice…
The US-sponsored plan for Israeli-Palestinian “peace to prosperity” is not a peace plan. It contradicts previous Israeli-Palestinian agreements on core issues of the conflict: borders,…
On March 2nd, Israelis will go back to the polls for the third time within one year. As expected, the 22nd Knesset voted to dissolve…
The situation Israel has been facing for several months now is unprecedented in many respects. For the first time in its history, the country has…
On November 12th, the Court of Justice of the European Union decided that foodstuffs originating in occupied territories and imported in the EU could not…
One month after the elections, Israel does not have a government yet. Once again, Netanyahu has failed to form it and Gantz will also have…
Coming out of the second electoral campaign in 5 months, none of the two candidates for the position of Prime Minister is able to form…
JCall launched the Call to Reason in May 2010, one year after Benyamin Netanyahu came back to power, in order to end the Occupation and…
The lists in race for the “second round” of the Israeli elections have been tabled on August 1st. 32 lists this time, 15 less than…
Two weeks after the vote on the dissolution of The 21st Knesset, less than two months after its election, the Israeli political class seems to…
May 26th, we will elect our members of the European Parliament. Each of us will vote in all honesty. But our civic duty goes beyond…
photo from the Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day Ceremony, Tel Aviv May, 7th “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” This…
Given the insight into the results of the elections, and the disappointment we had to overcome, we may now draw quite a few lessons from…
On April 9th, Israelis will vote to appoint the 21st Knesset. This election, probably one of the most important for a long time, will determine…
Less than six weeks before the elections, the campaign is launched in Israel and the tone has been set. The campaign will be tough. Two…
JCall Europe sides with other progressive Jewish groups in the Diaspora, from Jstreet USA to the New Israel Fund, from Americans for Peace Now to…
The issue of the strengthening or the weakening of democracy will be back on the policy agenda, in the European Union and in Israel. In…
In order ro convey a sense of history, it is always a good thing to look back. A year ago, at the start of 2018,…
We are witnessing now a widespread increase of antisemitism in the world. It would be irresponsible to ignore it. Since JCall’s creation in 2010, we…
On October 18th, the Israeli Supreme Court’s decision to allow Lara Alqasem, a young American student of Palestinian origin, to enter Israel in order to…
According to the Jewish tradition, we usually say on Rosh Hashana’s eve: « May the year end with its curses and begin with its blessings. »…
July 18th, 2018, will perhaps be remembered some day as the date when the Knesset challenged, through its vote, the balance existing, since the creation…
Last week, the cancelling of the football match between Argentina and Israel scheduled on June 9th hit the headlines in Israel and the Palestinian territories.…
“We may forgive the Arabs for killing our children but we cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children”: this tweet was posted…
Israeli author David Grossman was the keynote speaker at the April 17th 2018 joint Israeli-Palestinian memorial service sponsored by the Parents Circle-Families Forum and Combatants…
Friday March 30th, as Jews celebrated the first day of Passover—festival of freedom commemorating the Hebrews’ exodus from Egypt after they were freed from slavery—Hamas…
Saturday April 28th, 2018, at the Town Hall of the 4th arrondissement of Paris *, we will hold a Conference entitled “Questioning the Israeli Democracy”.…
Dear Prime Minister Netanyahu, As European Jews and as friends of Israel, we are deeply concerned about your government plans to deport tens of thousands…
There is a separation, a parting of ways in the Jewish world between Israel as the nation-state of the Israelis and the American and European…
Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, and to transfer to this city the American embassy located in Tel Aviv is an impediment…
Seven years after the creation of JCall, (the European network for Israel and for peace), our “Call to Reason“ is as relevant as ever. The…
JCall organized on April 11 a seder with La paix Maintenant and the Association for a Judaism Humanist and Secular to mark the fiftieth year…
The second round of the presidential election looks more hazardous than it seemed to be last Sunday. This last week, Marine Le Pen has been…
In Shimon Peres’s funeral ceremony last October in Jerusalem, Tsvia Walden, Shimon’s daughter, not only recited Kaddish according to the egalitarian practice of Reform Judaism…
Every year, the first night of the Passover Seder starts with the four questions generally formulated by children, who ask how this evening is different…
The so-called Settlement Regulation Law that was just voted by the Knesset legalizes retroactively previously illegal settlements built on private Palestinian land, and establishes a…
After all these years of aborted negotiations and violent periods between Israelis and Palestinians, we welcome favorably all initiatives aiming to advance the search for…
JCall welcomes the resolution adopted Friday night by the Security Council. Despite the statement of the office of the Israeli Prime Minister, it is not…
Like the majority of American Jews who voted for her[1], we would have preferred Hillary Clinton to be elected President of the United States. One…
Shimon Peres, who just passed away, at the age of 93, devoted all his life to the service of Israel. During that long and remarkable…
New survey of Israeli public opinion: Diaspora Jews also bear responsibility for fate of Israel; the conflict with the Palestinians also harms Jews abroad Some…
IF YOU CARE ABOUT ISRAEL, SILENCE IS NO LONGER AN OPTION! As the year 2017 approaches, marking 50 years of the Israeli occupation of the…
by Giorgio Gomel* ABSTRACT There is some degree of ambivalence, mistrust, and even hostility between Europe and Israel. Europeans see Israel on a path of…
JCall Italy organized a colloquium at the Italian Parliament in Rome on “Two peoples ,one peace”. (To see the video click here) In the current…
JCall supports the Paris Conference on the Middle East to be held May 30th and looks forwards to it, especially given the persistent obstruction…
JCall condemns the shameful behaviour of “Nuit Debout” militants who forced Alain Finkielkraut, member of the French Academy, to leave Place de la République in…
Register for our next conference on April 10, 2016 at Adyar theater 4 Rapp square, 75007 Paris The Middle-East is in turmoil. Shattering of…
JCall welcomes the statement by Laurent Fabius, French Minister of Foreign Affairs, announcing that “In the coming weeks, France will take… steps in order to…
The lights of Hanukkah just went out, but statements and initiatives against NGO’s fighting for human rights in Israel and in Palestinian territories already darken…
The recent Islamist attacks perpetrated in France have prompted intense emotions we all share. We also support the fight led against “the army of fanatics…
The Israeli Prime Minister, Benyamin Netanyahu, crossed the line by insulting in the same sentence the Jewish people and the Palestinian people. Twenty years ago,…
Unfortunately, we are not surprised to witness a situation in which, once again, the occupied territories are on the brink of explosion. We have repeated…
According to the Jewish tradition, we usually say on Rosh Hashana eve: « May the year end with its curses and begin with its blessings. »…
The pictures of refugees— children, adults, or elderly persons—walking along the railway tracks or the roads, carrying a bundle on their backs, crawling under barbed…
With the attack perpetrated in the village of Doma, near Nablus, the Jewish extremists claiming to belong to the “Tag Mekhir“ movement— “The Price Tag“—have…
JCall acknowledges the nuclear agreement reached between the P5 + 1 and Iran, establishing an international control on Iran’s nuclear program. Putting an end to…
Is it related to the current heatwave ? In the heart of custom paper the summer, all the “hot“ issues of concern to us these…
1. Jstreet’s show of strength (3000 participants, of whom 1100 University students, and overall 180.000 supporters)) and determination in opposing the new Israeli government and…
Benyamin Netanyahu is about to start a fourth mandate after having repeated statements that sound like provocations. In order to win the votes of the…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s planned speech to Congress next month has already accomplished a rare feat: It has united ideologues as different as Jeremy…
Recently addressing a French-speaking audience, Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, declared that he went to Paris to attend the demonstration of January11th « as the…
Tragic record last week-end. First Copenhagen, where two murderous attacks targeted the same symbols as in Paris last month: a meeting organized to defend freedom…
The Labor-Hatnuah joint ticket is opening up a small lead over Likud, according to two polls released Thursday. The polls, taken after the Labor Party…
We are CHARLIE, FRENCH JEWS, FRENCH POLICEMEN with millions of persons today all over the world. We are CHARLIE, because we created JCall to…
We launched our “Call to Reason“ in May 2010 because we were aware of the urgency, for Israel to survive as a democratic State with…
Jewish European network for Israel, for peace & for the two States solution After the recognition of Palestine by Sweden and the British, Irish…
JCall condemns the horrendous crime committed this morning in a Jerusalem synagogue. We share the families’grief and wish a quick recovery to the injured. We…
on the left Giorgio Gomel during the meeting of JCall’s delegation in Ramallah with Prime minister Salam Fayyad (april 2013) Confronti is an Italian monthly…
While Jerusalem is on the verge of exploding, there is still time to prevent the worst from happening. We condemn the attempted murder of Yehuda…
While Jerusalem is on the verge of exploding, there is still time to prevent the worst from happening. We condemn the attempted murder of Yehuda…
To say the least, 5774 which won’t stay a historic year. The failure of peace negotiations led by John Kerry between Benjamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud…
To say the least, 5774 which won’t stay a historic year. The failure of peace negotiations led by John Kerry between Benjamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud…
JCall, the European Jewish Call for Israel and for Peace, strongly condemns the recent Israeli initiative aiming to seize 900 acres of land located in…
Jewish European network for Israel & for peace 1) 900 acres seized in the West Bank: one more impediment to peace JCall, the European Jewish…
JCall, the European Jewish network for Israel and for peace, condemns strongly the breach of the humanitarian ceasefire by the Hamas which caused the death…
JCall, the European Jewish network for Israel and for peace, condemns strongly the breach of the humanitarian ceasefire by the Hamas which caused the…
Jewish European network for Israel & for peace Once again, a new episode of the Middle East conflict will end with a cease-fire which will…
Once again, a new episode of the Middle East conflict will end with a cease-fire which will hopefully occur as soon as possible. Time has…
Jewish European network for Israel & for peace Who could have seriously believed that the failure of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations would lead to a statu quo…
A press release by JCall, 7 juillet 2014 Who could have seriously believed that the failure of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations would lead to a statu quo…
Jewish European network for Israel & for peace Yesterday, the discovery of the bodies of three kidnapped Israeli teenagers ended more than two weeks of …
Yesterday, the discovery of the bodies of three kidnapped Israeli teenagers ended more than two weeks of anguish but also the hope of seeing these…
Jewish European network for Israel & for peace The kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers studying in a yeshiva which took place last Thursday in the…
NEW YORK TIMES By THE EDITORIAL BOARD – June 6, 2014 The recent collapse of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks has sharpened tensions and…
Jewish European network for Israel & for peace It is with indignation that JCall, the Jewish European network for Israel and for peace, has learnt…
It is with indignation that JCall, the Jewish European network for Israel and for peace, has learnt of the savage attack againt the Jewish Museum…
Jewish European network for Israel & for peace . 1 – Sign our appeal and meeting with Zeev Sternhell Last days events reinforce our concern…
Jewish European network for Israel & for peace In a few days JCall will celebrate its fourth year of existence. The reasons that prompted us…
To the heads of State and Government of the European Countries Ladies, Gentlemen, The round of negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority,…
Jewish European network for Israel & for peace Those who pretend to go forth from Egypt must leave the territories While we are celebrating…
Jewish European network for Israel & for peace Please, let us remind you: 1.All JCall-France members are invited to attend our next General Meeting…
Jewish European network for Israel & for peace Two important events in the next days: 1.All JCall-France members are invited to attend our next General…
Editorial Jewish Daily Forward Published March 04, 2014. New York – USA – The tendentious exchange between President Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…
Jeffrey Goldberg Bloomberg News, Mar. 2, 2014 (excerpts) When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the White House tomorrow, President Barack Obama will tell…
Jewish European network for Israel & for peace John Kerry’s and Mahmoud Abbas’s unexpected visit to Paris on February 19th, and the announced meeting of…
Of course most Palestinians wish Israel didn’t exist, but that doesn’t mean they can’t accept it as a tragic reality, in exchange for a state…
Ari Shavit, Haaretz, Feb. 13, 2014: “The Israeli-Palestinian conflict did not start in 1967 and does not revolve around the occupation and the settlements.…
I am a strong supporter of a two-state peace. The messianic idea of Greater Israel, occupying all the land between the Mediterranean and the Jordan…
In the wake of Ariel Sharon’s death, JCall recalls that the former Prime Minister of Israel belonged to the first generation of pioneers who founded…
Jewish European network for Israel & for peace Dear friends, Within a few days, John Kerry, Secretary of State, will start his eleventh visit…
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Jewish European network for Israel & for peace This year 2013 ends better than it started. A year ago, the situation in tne Middle-East seemed…
On november 30th, 2013, the second session of JCall’s ‘Israel÷Palestine 2020“ conference, launched in Paris on october 6th, took place at Angers university. We had…
This morning, October 17th, 2013, Gérard Unger, President of JCall France, and David Chemla, European Secretary-General of JCall, met President François Hollande at the Elysee…
This week marks the twentieth anniversary of the Oslo Accords. The disappointment on the part of most Israelis and Palestinians at any mention of…
Will the forthcoming new Jewish year, 5774, be the year when we finally witness the signing of an agreement that brings the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to…
In an article appearing in the French language edition of the Huffington Post on June 25, Marie-Nadine Prager, Secretary General of Socialism & Judaism, Vice…
In October 2011 the Israeli government, with a huge majority including most of the Likud’s ministers, voted in favor of releasing more than 1027 Palestinian…
The European Union has released in its Official Journal of July 19th new guidelines according to which, from 2014, not one euro of grant, prize…
Jonathan Jeremy Goldberg asked in an article published in Forward on June 09, 2013 why can’t the political and security establishment agree? In late…
Jun. 10, 2013 By The Associated Press (Excerpts) Leon Wieseltier has long maintained a close relationship with the state of Israel. But the Jewish-American…
By Gershon Baskin, co-chairman of IPCRI, the Israel Palestine Center for Research and Information. The Jerusalem Post, June 5, 2013 (Excerpts) The ticking clock is…
The painful truth is that there is no real land potential in Israeli territory for a 1:1 territorial exchange with the Palestinians. Excerpts from an…
In the context of a deadlocked political situation, the JCall trip that took place in Israel and Palestine between april 28th and may 4th 2013…
The State of Israel is a success story. But there is no chance that it will realize the Zionist vision if it does not protect,…
From April, 27th to May, 5th, a hundred of JCall’s members coming from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Nederland and Switzerland will travel on the roads…
Listening to and reading the first reactions to last week’s speech to representatives of Israeli youth in Jerusalem, it’s easy to see how little international…
Peace is necessary … Peace is just … Peace is possible …told President Obama to the people of Israel in his speech in Jerusalem today.…
Shalom. President Peres, Prime Minister Netanyahu, and most of all, to the people of Israel, thank you for this incredibly warm welcome. This is my…
Jeffrey Goldberg is a national correspondent for The Atlantic and a recipient of the National Magazine Award for Reporting. Author of the book Prisoners: A…
From April, 27th to May, 5th, a hundred of JCall’s members coming from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Nederland, Sweden and Switzerland will participate in…
Nearly three weeks after having been named by President Shimon Peres to form the next government, Benjamin Netanyahu finds himself between a rock and a…
Peter Beinart The Daily Beast / Open Zion Feb 12, 2013 From its start, Open Zion has been a liberal Zionist blog dedicated to…
The announcement of Obama’s forthcoming visit to Israel and the West Bank has triggered many comments during the last few days. By announcing his…
By Roger Cohen The New York Times / International Herald Tribune, January 28, 2013 Tel Aviv AMOS Oz, the novelist whose stories and tales have…
You will find an interesting analysis of last Israeli elections results done by Jeremy Ben-Ami, president of JStreet Never underestimate Israel’s ability to surprise.…
J.J. Goldberg The Daily Beast/Open Zion, Jan 25, 2013 Excerpt: Lapid, unburdened by a primary process or party structure, hand-picked his list. The first person…
Shaul Arieli describes the positions regarding the border between Israel and the Palestinians. He points to the feasibility of a border agreement to be determined…
Shaul Arieli describes the issue of Jerusalem in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict-historical background, the Israeli Palestinian negotiating proposals, and particularly the consequences of existing trends on…
Shaul Arieli describes the issue of Israel’s security with respect to old threats, and current threats. Arieli shows the security arrangements which were negotiated between…
Final surveys indicate Netanyahu set to win Tuesday; Likud-Beytenu projected to take 32-34 seats, with Labor at 16-17; Yesh Atid, Meretz grow stronger By Yifa…
by Khaled Abu Toameh January 3, 2013 at 5:00 am Western journalists, funders and decision-makers need to know that there are many truths being hidden…
Four days before elections, support for Likud-Beytenu is lower than ever; 15% of voters remain undecided By Ron Friedman and Yoel Goldman Polls released Friday,…
The following letter from British Prime Minister David Cameron was received by former New York mayor Ed Koch Tuesday in response to his letter which…
JCall, the European Jewish network for Israel and for peace, expresses its deep concern over the announcement by the Israeli government to build three thousand…
JCall, the pro-Israel, pro peace European network, takes note of the United Nations General Assembly’s decision to upgrade the Palestinian Authority’s status to a non-member…
At a time when, once again, people in Southern – and for the first time Central – Israel are under the threat of rockets launched…
JCall, the European Jewish network for Israel and for peace, looks forward to the Israeli Prime Minister’s visit in France and to his meeting with…
On the eve of the Jewish New Year, we would first of all like to wish you and your loved ones a Happy New Year.…
Colloque de JCall, le 19 juin 2011 à Paris. Table ronde sur le thème «Comment réagir à la délégitimation d’Israël». Avec Robert Fine, Maurice Szafran,…
Question du Public, débat avec les intervenants. Table ronde sur le thème ” La société civile israélienne face à l’occupation”, colloque de JCall le 19…
JCall mourns the loss of the victims of the attack against a bus full of Israeli tourists in the vacation resort of Burgas in Bulgaria.…
Enregistrement vidéo du « Livre des mondes juifs » édition 2012 réalisé par Akadem Avec la participation de Sophie Bessis, écrivain, Hamit Bozarslan, historien, David Chemla, modérateur…
On June 12th, by 69 votes against 22, the Israeli Parliament rejected a bill drafted by the “settlements’ lobby” in order to react to the…
On Monday, 6th February, President Nicolas Sarkozy received the directors of JCall (Gérard Unger, President, David Chemla, European General Secretary, Alain Rozenkier, board member), accompanied…
JCall thinks that the replacement of the Israeli-Palestinian question at the top of the international agenda through the Palestinian initiative at the UN is a…
Next September 20th, the Palestinians will ask the United Nations to accept Palestine as a member state. As this date draws near, JCall, who supports…
JCall – the European Jewish call for reason – calls upon the International Community, particularly the United States and the European Union, to put together…
Faced with the current turmoil in the Middle East, Israel cannot afford to maintain a defensive position and take refuge in a status quo. It…
JCall is horrified by the cold-blooded murder of the Fogel family in the settlement of Itamar. We hope that Israel and the Palestinian Authority will…
JCall est horrifié par l’assassinat de sang froid de la famille Fogel dans l’implantation d’Itamar en Cisjordanie. Nous espérons qu’Israël et l’Autorité palestinienne arrêteront les…
Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, Libya: the Arab world is in a turmoil. Two authoritarian regimes have already fallen and others may follow. Faced with this…
The Israeli government’s desire to exclude East Jerusalem from an agreement on the renewal of a freeze on colonization is a major obstacle today to…
The 6th of October, at 8 pm, we organize the first JCall meeting in France. It will take place in the Rossini room of the…
Four weeks after having launched our appeal, more then 6 000 persons have already signed it. The media coverage it has received in many countries,…
Une dizaine de personnalités expliquent les raisons qui les ont amenés à signer notre appel. Ce livre collectif, coordonné par David Chemla, regroupe les témoignages…
On Monday, March 3 at 8:00 PM, we will host, at the premises of Beit Tarbout Tsavta*, in collaboration with…
Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella, of the National Rally, at the March against anti-Semitism in Paris, November 12,…
