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No. 61, 15 October /7 Heshvan 5771
Georges-Elia Sarfati
- The year 2010 has witnessed a turning point in the way that Jews and Israel are treated. Through the JCall phenomenon, a part of the world Jewish community has become the partisan of a changed attitude toward the state of Israel. A call for "pressure" on Israel is voiced by a part of the Jewish elites who claim to be doing so out of affection.
- The "Short Manifesto" published by JCall in Libération last July casts the adversaries of JCall as psychopathological. It suggests that being a Jew of "goodwill" means supporting the principle of publicly denouncing Israel, calling for a campaign of international intervention, recommending that Israel repeal a disastrous policy, and considering Israel as not being a democracy while treating with contempt the majority of its citizens.
- Whereas the "Short Manifesto" holds that Jews who lack "goodwill" have failed to express themselves out of reticence, actually they have done so by adopting a critical stance different from that of JCall in the framework of the "Be Reasonable" platform. The promoters and signers of "Be Reasonable" expressed a principled, though not blind, solidarity with Israel based on respecting its sovereignty.
- The reasoning upheld by the "Short Manifesto" is of a blatant perversity. It in effect supplies Israel's enemies with the elements for a new, unquenchable criticism of the Jewish state, produces an abundance of arguments assigning guilt to the Jewish people, and pulverizes the consensus of Diaspora Jews by urging them to be relentless prosecutors of Israel.
