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 contiguous with Gaza. Sderot and Ashkelon are not the only targets of these attacks any…
Is Netanyahu’s era over ?
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 all his last maneuvers to attempt convincing Naphtali Bennett, Gideon Saar or Benny Gantz to…
Political blockade in the Knesset – season 4
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 ask them which candidate they chose to form the new government, following the fourth round…
J-Link: Open letter to Mr. Reuven Rivlin, President of the State of Israel
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 organizations, sides with many other Jewish organizations and individuals around the world in viewing with…
Israeli election : Will the fourth round be the right one?
“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 ? In less than two weeks, Israelis will go back to the polls for the fourth…
J-Link Statement on the Vaccination of Palestinians
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 West Bank. What threatens the health and economy of Palestinians also threatens Israeli citizens, including…
Bibi or not Bibi
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 the fourth time in two years. This new election will cost billions shekels, while the…
“A Jewish-Arab Israeli Political Party in the Making?” next event on Sunday 17 January
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 in Israel. With the participation of : Rula Daood, Co-National Director of Standing Together (Omdim…
From one election to the next
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 none of the investigations conducted so far has confirmed. If Biden’s victory is undisputable on…
Letter of congratulation by J-Link to President Biden and Vice President Harris
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 great success with your efforts to heal the divides, promote justice and raise hope domestically…
“After the American election” : Zoom conference on November 23rd at 7 p.m.
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 candidates apparently succeeded in mobilizing massively their electorate. The count of the ballots will take…
The global Impact of the US election
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, a relative continuity of the American position engaged since the Obama years in a process…
“Towards a new Middle East ?”
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 September 15th between Israel and the United Arab Emirates on one hand, and Israel and…
JCall’s press release on Samuel Paty’s murder
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 of the family and of the teachers with which we associate ourselves, JCall asks the…
“From social protest to the construction of a political alternative: Zoom meeting on September 22nd at 7p.m. (Paris time)
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) The protest movement in Israel entered its 12th week, increasing nonstop. Each Saturday,several tenths of…