Brussels, December 15th, 2021 – The Middle East peace process will not be restarted anytime soon but it is important to keep the end goal in mind while we in the meantime foster regional cooperation and take concrete steps to improve the living conditions for the...
New York, December 6th, 2021 – This week the European Coalition for Israel is finally returning to the United Nations in New York after a pause of almost two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic during which all meetings and activities have been conducted virtually. “We...
Brussels, October 7th, 2021 – The European Commission has presented its first ever comprehensive EU strategy on combating antisemitism and fostering Jewish life. In a press conference in Brussels on Tuesday, Commission president Ursula von der Leyen noted that "Europe...
Geneva, October 5th, 2021 – With less than one hundred days until Holocaust Remembrance Day 2022, the International Coalition for Israel (ICI)* has launched an educational campaign to invite local churches to adopt the IHRA working definition of antisemitism. The...
Geneva, September 6th, 2021 – A global online marathon to Celebrate Israel and wish the Jewish world “Shana Tova”, a sweet new year, has issued a Geneva Declaration cherishing the presence of Jewish communities worldwide as well as the State of Israel. The Declaration...
Brussels, August 31st, 2021 – Samoa and Venezuela were among the first nations to send in their video contributions to the Global Celebrate Israel Marathon, an event which will be broadcast from Jerusalem on Sunday, September 5th, just one day ahead of Rosh Hashana,...
Brussels, July 23rd 2021 - The recent announcement by ice cream maker Ben & Jerry’s to stop selling their ice cream in the disputed territories, including East Jerusalem, introduces a new flavour of modern antisemitism, ECI Founding Director Tomas Sandell said in...
Brussels, June 24th, 2021 – After almost two decades of denial and neglect, the European Commission is gradually accepting responsibility for its role in funding Palestinian education that fuels antisemitism. The admission comes after many years of campaigning by...
Brussels, June 3rd, 2021 – European Coalition for Israel congratulates the newly elected 11th President of the State of Israel, Isaac Herzog on his historic landslide victory in the Israeli Knesset vote in Jerusalem on Wednesday 2rd June, in which he received broad...
Brussels, May 27th, 2021 - Nothing much seems to have changed on the streets of Europe since the EU Crisis Summit in 2004, prompted by a sudden spike in antisemitism and called together by then EU Commission President Romano Prodi, when the late Holocaust survivor and...
Brussels, May 11th, 2021 – Both the United States and the European Union have condemned the firing of rockets from Gaza as tension between Israel and the Islamic terrorist groups in Gaza escalates to the most critical level since 2014. In a statement on Monday, EU...
New York, April 29th, 2021 - UN diplomats from some forty nations, representing all regional groups of the UN and all the continents, came together on Monday 26th of April to mark Pesach Sheni, the second Passover, in a cultural celebration hosted by the Forum for...