Paris, France – More than 3,000 European Jews, including prominent intellectuals, have signed a petition speaking out against Israeli settlement policies and warning that systematic support for the Israeli government is dangerous.
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The petition’s signatories include French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy and Daniel Cohn-Bendit, a Greens leader in the European Parliament. Backers – who compare their goals to those of J Street, a liberal Jewish lobbying group in the United States – plan to present their position at a news conference at the European Parliament in Brussels on Monday.
Many signatories are from France, where the petition has received much press coverage. France’s Jewish community has hotly debated the petition, entitled “Call for Reason.” The president of France’s leading Jewish association, CRIF, declined to sign, saying he objected to its tone and some of its language.
“Do Israelis need the Jewish Diaspora to know what is ‘the right’ decision, what should be the borders of a country that their sons and daughters are protecting?” Richard Prasquier wrote in Le Figaro newspaper.
Those circulating the petition hope to build a European movement “to allow a Jewish voice to be heard that is both committed to the state of Israel and critical of the current choices of its government.”
The petition, online athttp://www.jcall.eu, says Israel faces a threat in the “occupation and the continuing pursuit of settlements in the West Bank and in the Arab districts of East Jerusalem.
“These policies are morally and politically wrong and feed the unacceptable delegitimization process that Israel currently faces abroad,” it says.
i think we should make something like this in the usa.
Jewish goyim. They wouldve signed a pro hitler petition that’s its actually the Jews fault for everything that ills Europe.
Do they think that they will gain favor with the goyim by signing against israel?
Shame on them…
When the goyim come to get you, they will not show you mercy because you signed a letter stabbing your own people in the back. Shame on you.
This is certainly not the end of the road since everyone knows that the State of Israel is meant for the 75% of its population who are Jews (even without the West Bank and Gaza) and not the 25% who are Arabs (even without the West Bank and Gaza Arabs). So who are these supposed leftwingers kidding?? Don’t they expect the Arabs within the Green Line will demand the same equality in a non-Jewish ethnic State that Blacks have in the USA?
End the occupation (of the Arabs in our land)!
So the French Jews can be as sleazy as the French themselves.
Imagine if our grandparents in the concentrations camps had a glimpse of the future. They would have cried in aguish!
Its less than seventy years after the Holocaust and who would believe that this is happening in front of our very eyes….
We need Moshiach now!
These are the same people who in the 1940’s said they were germans and nothing will happen to them because the germans wouldn’t hurt their own citizens. Wake up smell the hate around us we jews only have one home its israel not europe or america. Israel is so small , smaller then jersey or cali. Why do we have to sacrifes our land to people who have over 30plus countiers to go to and we have one.
In the 1930’s they were called kapos
Bernard Henri Levy is a known friend of Israel and he is not a terrorist apologist like many on the left. He doesn’t question Israel’s right to exist, nor does he dance to the U.N. mantra against Israel defending itself. Question of settlements and expansion is a controversial issue even with in Israeli society and within the orthodox world. Remember, there was a large settlement initiative in Sinai too and we don’t even talk about it when we gave it back.
Having 100 IDF soldiers per 1 settler in some settlement communities is an insane policy that does not have a greater over all benefit and the cost to society is big.
Only one word adequately captures what this is: sick
German Jewry had a similar issue with religios yoddin in the 1800’s. Didn’t work out well for the “inteluctuals” as their children were killed along with the frum by the Nazis. We seem to forget our tragic history.
Reminiscent of “Committee of soviet Jews against Zionism” – brings me back to 1980’s USSR.
Where are all the people who call Moshe Hirsh a Tzaddik?
These poor bastards are also such tzadikim. They also believe strongly.
Such craven coward. Self-hating thugs.
On this Lag B’Omer Day , this is the worst and most depressing news I’ve seen all day.
What a travesty. How can we organize a petition of thousands of Jews supporting the Israeli government?
These sickos are as bad as the NK.
Spinless selfhatting brothers. There should be a pitition started on the other side to show how many are stand with israel. I’m sure we could get alot more than 3,000.
These leftist European Jews are part of the sonim from within. They are urged on by these “intellectuals” who are usually all the same, but it is they who should start thinking about their plight. Europe is a disaster in waiting for the Jewish people there. Instead of their stupid hatred, they should be thinking of “Aliyah”, and the sooner the better.