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 opposition it arouses. Citizen mobilisation continued throughout the summer. Each Saturday night, Israelis opposed to…
Meeting with a delegation of Israeli and Palestinian NGOs on Tuesday, May 30th at 8:30 p.m.
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 Bernard Lazare* JCall and La Paix Maintenant invite you to meet a delegation of…
Yom Haatsmaout 2023 : A year like no other
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. It started with the Passover seder evening, where Jews gather with their families to remember…
“To save the Israeli democracy” recording of the conference
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). with the participation of : – Elie Barnavi, historian, former Israeli ambassador in France –…
To save the Israeli democracy
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, hundreds of thousands of Israelis, refusing to see their country change its regime, have been…
Call to reason 2, JCall 2010-2023
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 the assertion of a willingness to change the regime. On the Palestinian side, coalition agreements…
Conference from the European Parliament “To save the Israeli democracy”
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 March 27th, you have to click to this link https://ep.interactio.eu/q-dnp-4uhs-5e9c You will be able to…
Neither a state of the Jews nor a state of the Israelis
“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 some of our rabbis to take hold: we will be able to keep them tightly…
Israel and Palestine: conflict and coexistence
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 peoples a political agreement that would resolve the key issues – borders between the two…
Degradation of the security situation in a climate of protest
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 synagogue in Neve Yaakov, a Jewish neighbourhood built in East Jerusalem during the seventies, leaving…
JCall new Appeal : Ensuring democracy in Israel
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 the threats from its external enemies“ against Israel, “that danger also lies in the occupation…
Elections in Israel and United States : Democracy at stake
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 the turn of American voters to vote for the midterms, and to elect the 435…
Endless election
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 only one to remember the events of the day before. The Israeli public seems to…
Letter of protest from JLink following Israeli actions against 6 Palestinian NGOs
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 were terrorist organizations. The apparent intent was to suppress their human rights advocacy and deprive…
Towards a fifth round !
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 eventually paid off. A third deputee of the right-wing party Yamina, Nir Orbach, has defuncted…