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Plan to deport thousands asylum seekers in Israel : A call to the Israeli PM

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 of Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers. In most democratic countries, refugee acceptance rates for...

david.chemla19 January 201819 January 2018

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Donald Trump’s declaration on Jerusalem: a unilateral decision which does not foster peace

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 to a peace process already in bad shape. Jerusalem has been for three...

david.chemla7 December 2017

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JCall supports SISO

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 occupation of Palestinian territories following the Six Day War, which was a war of...

david.chemla14 July 201719 July 2017

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The seder of the fiftieth anniversary

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 of the Six day war and the begining of the occupation of the Palestinian...

david.chemla17 May 2017

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On May 7th, every single ballot must go to Macron

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 busy running a sly and pervasive campaign, which allows her to get new allies;...

david.chemla1 May 2017

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Us and the others: Jewish universalism

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 but she added to the original text, ending with “Oseh shalom bimromau hu berahamau...

david.chemla22 April 2017

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Come out of the Egypt of the subjugated and out of the Egypt of the subjugators

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 from other evenings. By reminding us of the singularity of this holiday which commemorates...

david.chemla6 April 2017

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The Settlement Regulation Law is Immoral, Contrary to the Values of Judaism, and Antidemocratic

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 legal framework for future expropriations. It marks a fundamental break since for the first...

admin14 February 2017

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We support Paris International Conference on the Middle East

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 a solution to the conflict. This is why we support the French initiative to...

david.chemla6 January 2017

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The resolution condemning the occupation adopted by the Security Council is not a vote against Israel !

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 an « anti-Israeli resolution », but a resolution against the policy of occupation and colonization his...

david.chemla24 December 201626 December 2016

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Changes in prospect after Trump’s election

Like the majority of American Jews who voted for her, we would have preferred Hillary Clinton to be elected President of the United States. One week later, it is still difficult for us to imagine how the most powerful...

david.chemla15 November 201615 November 2016

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Farewell to Simon Peres, man of security, man of peace

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 career, the security and the development of the Jewish State have been his main...

david.chemla3 October 2016

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A Call to the Jews of the World:

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 Palestinian territories, Israel stands at a crossroad. The present situation is disastrous. The prolonged...

david.chemla15 September 201627 September 2016

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Europe and Israel: A Complex Relationship

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 permanent occupation of Palestinian territories. Israel sees the European posture as unbalanced and biased...

david.chemla22 June 2016

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JCall supports the Paris Conference on the Middle East and condemns the recent adoptions, by a Unesco political organ, of a text approved by France

JCall supports the Paris Conference on the Middle East to be held May 30th and looks forwards to it, especially given the persistent obstruction of the peace process perpetuating a deadly statu quo. JCall points out that according...

david.chemla2 May 20162 May 2016