A group of over 3,000 European Jews, known as
JCall, have signed a petition, speaking out against Israel, that was
presented to the European Parliament in Brussels.
“We are speaking as friends of Israel and we are saying: You are
going to make a mistake. You have to decide how to behave, not us,”
David Chemla, head of the group, told the Haaretz newspaper on
Monday.
“But as friends, as Jews, we want to tell you
that you are going down a wrong path,” said Chemla, who moved to France
after living in Israel for 10 years and serving in the IDF.
The petition, entitled “Call for Reason”, considers the Israeli
occupation and settlements “morally and politically wrong,” noting that
they “feed the unacceptable delegitimisation process that Israel
currently faces abroad.”
“It comes from the European Jewish communities
who are profoundly attached to Israel and who want to say that current
Israeli policies are both a source of anxiety for us and a source of
insecurity in the long term for Israel as well as a source of injustice
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