News has reached us from Brussels that the Spanish foreign minister, Miguel Moratinos and his French counterpart, Bernard Kouchner are pressing for a resumption of the upgrade process in political relations between Israel and the EU. JfJfP yesterday wrote to David Miliband demanding that no upgrade in relations be considered while Israel flagrantly breaches the Association Agreement. We’re publishing the text here and you can join the campaign yourself, by writing to your MP & MEP to make the same request.

Dear Luciana Berger,

As you probably know, Jews for Justice for Palestinians (JfJfP) is the largest Jewish peace group in Europe. We represent a significant body of opinion within the Jewish community in the UK. It is for this reason that we are writing to you to inquire about the nature of the invitation that Labour Friends of Israel extended to Ehud Barak, the Israeli Defence Minister, to attend your reception on 29th September at the Labour Party Conference in Brighton.

Lynne Reid Banks is moved to write to the JC in response to their recent article on JfJfP.

Farid Esack, a muslim scholar, was a United Democratic Movment activist in the Cape in the struggle against apartheid in the eighties. In a long Open Letter he draws comparison between the experiences in South Africa and those of the Palestinians and writes: “We as South Africans resisting Apartheid understood the invaluable role of international [...]

I am Sahar Vardi. I am 18 years old, a senior in high school in Israel. As you probably know, all Israelis must serve in the Israeli Defense Forces, starting right after our last year of high school. I and dozens of other students, on examining our values, International Law, and what we believe is best for Israel, refused to serve in the Occupied Territories and be a part of a mechanism that suppresses millions of Palestinians.

A letter in today’s (24 March) Independent, pointing out the complicity of Western Governments in Israel’s recent invasion of Gaza and underwriting the war by using taxpayers money to make good the destruction caused.

Letter from signatory Denis Glaser riposting this article from last week’s JC Your front page headline “Antisemitism key to UK exclusion policy” and article seem to imply that the main cause of the current wave of public outrage ascribed to antisemitism in this country is ‘hate-preaching extremists… who express antisemitic views’. The public in the [...]