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Messages of Goodwill and Support We have been absolutely inundated with messages of goodwill and support throughout the project.  These messages mean so much to the crew and passengers, as well as the organisers and the people of Gaza, to know that there is such feelings of goodwill throughout the world. We have been compiling […]

Passengers aboard the boat Initial Press Release Jewish Boat to Gaza boarded by Israeli forces and taken toward Ashdod port Arrival in Ashdod and possible release Israeli nationals released and heading home International Members of the Crew Dr Edith Lutz Yonatan and Itamar Shapira’s testimony as they returned home to their family  Interspersed updates   […]

Prime Minister Netanyahu has taken to many platforms during his period of office to proclaim the many concessions and offers of peace he has made to the Palestinians, all of which they have resisted. In an open letter to him, the German Jewish Forum finds all these claims to be untrue They also press him for the release of the ship Irene.

2016: 19 Feb: Letter published in the Financial Times 2015: 23 Dec: JfJfP’s Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Policy 14 Nov: Letter to the Guardian about the Board of Deputies (unpublished) 11 Nov: UK Ban on visiting Palestinian mental health workers 20 Oct: letter in the Guardian 13 Sep: Rosh Hashanah greetings 21 Aug: JfJfP on […]

Israel has the myth – all is well in Gaza – and it has the military power to persuade European and US establishments that the floitila must not sail. As this stance does not accord with fact or popular sentiment, it may be self-defeating suggests Miri Weingarten in this extensive review

A video interview with Glyn Secker, captain of the Irene. And passenger and refugee from Nazi Germany, Lilian Rosengarten, provides an interview as well.

Open Letter to Prime Minister Netanyahu: Dear Prime minister, We urge you not to rely on the IDF account of the boarding of The Jewish Boat To Gaza. The IDF state that there was no resistance and no violence. The true account, however,is as follows: When boarded we cut the engines. I held the wheel […]

Another week devoted to reporting, once again, on the Gaza flotilla and its aftermath. Click on the heading above for a guide to the postings…

This page will take you to the following pages: Related organisations – old links These are old links, many dating from 2005 or earlier. Inevitably many will no longer work Jewish Boat to Gaza The materials on the old Jewish Boat to Gaza website – http://jewishboattogaza.org/ – are in process of being relocated here. Faculty […]

 Mat Nashed writes in Al Jazeera 9 Mar 2024 Tel Aviv/West Jerusalem – In 2015, Maya, a Jewish Israeli, travelled to Greece to help Syrian refugees. At the time, she was an exchange student in Germany and she had been deeply moved by the pictures she saw of desperate people arriving there in small boats. […]