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 for Peace. Following is a translation of his speech: Dear friends, good evening. There…
The Gaza trap
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 launched its “Return March” and called the population to walk towards the border with Israel.…
JCall ‘s conference : Questioning the Israeli Democracy
Saturday April 28th, 2018, at the Town Hall of the 4th arrondissement of Paris *, we will hold a Conference entitled “Questioning the Israeli Democracy”. Prior registration is required. We invite you to register directly on our website. The…
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 Sudanese…
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 thousand…
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 defence,…
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 territories.…
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; among…
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 ya’aseh…
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 through…
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 time…
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 gather…
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 governement…
Changes in prospect after Trump’s election
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 week later, it is still difficult for us to imagine how the most powerful nation…
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 goals.…