European Jews for a Just Peace

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European Jews for a Just Peace (EJJP) is a federation of

The organisation was founded in Amsterdam in September 2002. Its principles are contained in its Amsterdam Declaration of 2002, amended in 2004. These are:^[2]

• the condemnation of all violence against civilians in the conflict, no matter by whom it is carried out
• the recognition of Israel's 1967 'green line' borders
• commitment to the Palestinians' right to a state in the territories currently occupied by Israel in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza
• the recognition of the right of both states to have Jerusalem as their capital
• calling on Israel to acknowledge its part in the creation of the Palestinian refugee problem and its obligation to negotiate a just, fair and practical resolution of the issue.

In an opinion article published in

In September 2010, EJJP organized a Gaza-bound aid boat, the "Jewish Boat to Gaza", carrying nine Jewish activists. It was intercepted by the Israel Defense Forces and led to the port of Ashdod.^[4]

The EJJP chairperson, Dror Feiler, an Israel-born Swedish national, was again aboard the French Dignité-Al Karama ship in the 2011 flotilla for Gaza.^[5]

Member organizations

• Austria: Jüdische Stimme für gerechten Frieden in Nahost (Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Near East)
• Belgium: Union des progressistes juifs de Belgique
• Denmark: European Jews for a Just Peace - Denmark
• France: Union juive française pour la paix (Jewish French Union for Peace)
• Germany: Jüdische Stimme für gerechten Frieden in Nahost (Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Near East)
• Italy: Rete Ebrei contro l'occupazione^[6] ("Rete ECO", Italian Network of Jews Against the Occupation)
• the Netherlands: Een Ander Joods Geluid (A Different Jewish Voice)
• Sweden: Judar för israelisk-palestinsk fred (Jews for Israeli–Palestinian Peace)
• Switzerland: Jüdische Stimme für einen gerechten Frieden zwischen Israel und Palästina^[7] (Jewish Voice for a Just Peace between Israel and Palestine)
• the United Kingdom: Jewish Socialists' Group and Jews for Justice for Palestinians

References

External links

• Official website