A welcome Jewish voice

why isnt haaretz writing about the latest news about golstone?. As a judge in sa he sent 28 africans to the gallows. are you censoring the news?

More than 5100 Jews have signed a petition of protest to J Call and they have formed a group called "Raison Garder". The reason of this protest is that these Leftist intellectuals think that forcing Israel to accept a Palestinian State will bring peace to Israel. They are wrong and if they think that they are so pro-Israel, let them make Aliyah to Israel and enter Israeli politics. Its a shame that there are still Jews who work for the downfall of the Jewish State of Israel.

The JCALL is doing a good service if it nurtures a Palestinian non violence revolution. If it shields the Palestinians against the incitement and conspiracies from Tehran, Riyadh, Beirut, Damascus, Baghdad, Kabul, Islamabad..

Jerusalem is historically the Israeli capital, I do agree with Mr Bibi, however for the sake of peace, the Israeli government should evaluate to make concessions step by step. It is clear that sometimes Israel defense policies right or not have a side effect and that is an increase of antisemitsm around the world, fueled by biased anti israeli media. Everytime the Israeli government makes or not a move, that motion affect not only the future of Israel but the situation of the Diaspora Jewry in their respective home countries

There is something missing in the English text of the call. In all other languages there is a statement, like: “dos Pueblos, dos Estados”; « deux Peuples, deux États »; “due popoli, due stati”; „twee volkeren, twee staten”. The best expression is in the German text: « zwei Staaten für zwei Völker » which translates into "two states for two people". The English text shows only: "Two States Solution", which everybody could see as he likes. Yaser Arafat would have liked the English version, as it could be seen as a Palestinian State and another State, called Israel, which not necessary has to be Jewish. Which text is the correct one, the original? If they correct it to clear say, that they support a solution "two states for two people", only this, I can support this call. The Palestinians will have clearly and loud to recognize Israel as the state of the Jewish people, and Israel clearly to recognize Palestine as the stat of the Palestinians. The rest is of secondary importance.

As a dual citizen of the Netherlands and the US, a resident of Bulgaria and Turkey, and a supporter of Jews rather than the present Israeli government and the religious right, I welcome JCall.

... leading the Jews out of the wilderness. In the last few decades, criticism of Israel has been pilloried as anti-Semitic rather than political disagreement. Perhaps this might be leading down the road towards Israeli Jews understanding the frustration of many at the inability to aim reasonable criticism at disagreeable right wing political policy and that it is not in itself an cast as an insult to Judaism as a whole.

There is nothing intellectual about this nonsense, just plain ignorance at best. How many times we need to recall that Israel was established by the U.N., that the neighboring Arab countries launched an attack to wipe it out, and created a "Palestinian refugee" problem? Three million Germans were forcibly and brutally removed from their homeland, which became a part of Poland. These Germans were integrated into Germany and Poland was not subject to terrorist attacks, German armed invasion, and shelling by German artillery. There are more examples in Europe and elsewhere. Unfortunately ideological blindness makes a mush in some Jewish brains.

"If all you have is a hammer, all problems look like nails." There is no reasoning with Israel's extremists - they are just like all extremists.

many of those who signed the petition are not jewish(as eden had pointed out). jcall, as j-street, sprung up as a continuation of the obama campaign. jcall does not even bother to offer a single criticism of the muslim world or of the palestinians. hence, their agenda is quite clear.

...but it's their own reputation. due to europe's negative stance on israel they know that they hardly have a chance to succeed in today's europe when they support israel. it's much easier in europe to stand up against israel and to blame the settlement policy instead of mentioning loudly and clearly the failures of the palestinian side. words against israel can be uttered quickly and easily. they don't cost anything, they don't even demand courage. it's so comfortable to sit far away in an easy chair and to join the choir of "israel-critics". but this behaviour of these intellectuals is a shame. they have no spine but jump on bandwagons without recalling past (negative) experiences like e. g. the israeli withdrawal from gaza in 2005. do these intellectuals really expect peace after israel's withdrawal from westbank-settlements? are they so naive? there will not be peace as long as the palestinians go on raising their children with hate on israel and jews. and this education has nothing to do with the settlements. it was there before 1967, and in gaza it still exists although israel has left gaza. when will these intellectuals and their supporters who welcome them wake up?...

None of their business. Come to live in Israel and then be in a position to have opinions.

Henceforth all personal opinions of diaspora Jews will be issued by head office in Israel. signed, Avigdor Lieberman Foreign Minister.

...to carefully think before they act. If they acted so, that's maybe because they were feeling ashamed to be, as Jews, amalgamated to the same melting pot as with violent and unrespectfull settlers. These philosphes acted according to their conscience. And when there is no reason to be ashamed, there is no need of the covert of the secrecy. On the contrary, I see that their open message was clearly made to oppose themselves to the settlers barbarian manners. Good and brave move.

I have usually rejected outright those who fear an apocalypse for Israel, dismissing them for not living here, paying our taxes wearing our uniform and taking our risks. Our peculiarity has always been that "somehow we can get through this" - and "this" has encompassed many serious challenges to our survival to numerous to enumerate here.. Right now however the list would subsume many other nations. "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself," Roosevelt famously announced, proffering the new deal. I am not dismissing the fear of a nuclear armed Iran, though like most I am bemused by the screaming headlines and contradictory analyses that surround this issue, That Hezbollah has more missiles than several of pour neighbours is a genuine source of fear, that our economy is not as stable as government would lead us to believe in an international recession is another. But the real fear is those home grown sources - the dishonest political class, the undemocratic path we are treading from government decision making, army action to human and civil rights. And much of this is encapsulated in the greatest longest lasting of all sources of our inner corrosion - the occupation. With these fears comes just one more - we ourselves. Whether reacting to the weight of the above or even more blinkered to political reality than before, we are behaving as if there are no boundaries, no reins that can pull us back, no authority that can counsel against our direction. It isn't just that we have abused and dismissed most of our allies. It is that we pretend that this is the 1950s and 60s when no one heard of us much and did little about us. The one stalwart in our existence, who we always turn to in deep distress is the Diaspora. But now they who represent our true cradle express concern for our future unlike at any time in our history. Many of them have lived and worked here, speak our language, paid our taxes wore our uniform. They are our hinterland which fights academic and trade boycott; it is they who lobby governments for our support. It is they who insist on being pro-Israel and pro-Peace. Ignoring J Call and those who provided the first initiative in J Street, is to close not only our ears but our hearts to those who love us the most and care for us the most..

Anti-Zionist Jews, we don't need!

Then why are they joining it?

When you say : "released over the weekend a petition signed by more than 3,000 Jews" , you're wrong ! Take a look of the signatures : most of them start by "I'm not jewish but..." And then take a look of the names : a lot of them are note jewish but christian and muslims. If you're enjoyed that leftist make pression on Israel, I think you are nuts. It seems to me that no israelian goes en voting with a gun on their heads. It's a democraty and nobody from outside should take the right to interfere in a sourerain country. This is insane and we, jews from France, are note going to be manipulated by J Street or J Call. NOWAY!

...bias in media and propoganda that kept the truth away from these people. Here in the UK if you go back barely ten years you will really struggle to find anything remotely critical of Israeli Govt. policies in the press.

To show they actually want peace. Or is that too hard for 'intellectuals' to grasp?

The so-called JCall is obviously doing an enormous disservice to Israel. Rather than approach the Israeli government directly and through closed doors, they publicly harangue it and approach the European parliament which is already a firm believer in the Palestinian narrative and sees Zionism as an evil incarnation. Whether or not JCall thinks it is doing Israel and the Jews a service or not, they way about which they are doing is WRONG, insulting, and only helps the Arab and extreme Left to further delegitimize the State of Israel. Samaria and Judea is the cradle of Jewish history. Israel has EVERY write to land, no less than the so called "palestinians." Yes, Israel may have to give up some of that land to the PA or, more preferably, divide the West bank with Jordan, but it is Israel's land to and its decision to ultimately do so, not Europe's or even Diaspora Jews who do not live, pay taxes, or vote in Israel. JCall and its ugly twin, J-Street should spend their time criticizing Arab and Islamic anti-antisemitism, homophobia, misogyny, and persecution of minorities, rather than ganging up on Israel.