Thank you, thank you to the 81.655 people who answered present!

Editorial

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Thank you, thank you to the 81.655 people who answered present!

But in 2017, more than ever, we still need you: to weigh in and to act!

Dear members, dear friend, dear friend, dear subscriber,

Ten months ago we launched a membership campaign for our association.

You were more than 80.000 (this morning at 8:00 am, you were exactly 81.655, more than 50.000 more than ten months ago!) to answer our call. We thank you !

Beyond the many Jewish and non-Jewish associations that have joined our structure, today you are 81.655 members, direct members, to have joined us. You were seduced by our way of acting, of meeting, of exchanging, freely, frankly but always with respect, you believed in our way of building a democratic space where the essence of our fight consists in defending the Republic of Enlightenment, to defend a paradigm of life that defends the values ​​that make France France.

Many of you have joined us regardless of your origin, your religion or your political opinion, but let's all have in mind to fight for a better life in France, this country dear to our hearts!

We all come together, witnesses or actors, to fight hatred, injustice, anti-Semitism, Holocaust denial, but also to defend these French values, those of humanism and enlightenment that rocked our history, our childhood and to build a future that is dear to us both for us and for our descendants! And which are fought, day after day, by extremist fanatics!

With you, we will continue this fight with force, without waffling and without compromise, without sinking into ineffective extremism, nor into useless emotionalism.

Let us be aware that in the current international and national context, this fight is far from over.

To succeed and carry out our fight, we need to influence the authorities, the media and civil society.

To do this, we need not only an effective structure, and that we believe we have built, but also the mass effect, the effect of numbers, that is to say your support for all !

Currently about thirty associations and more than 80.000 direct members make up our base, while you are nearly 500.000 subscribers to our Newsletter and several million have visited our site.

Among you, there are, of course, Jews but also very many non-Jews who are in the vast majority and who all share the same values.

You have been more than 80.000, in ten months, to have joined us, but to be even stronger, we still need you to multiply our action, to strengthen our listening and to act!

You can help us by joining or having your relatives and friends join.

Our goal is to reach 100.000 members by December 31!

We want to raise a crowd, and not, like many others, raise funds!

So, we call on you, for your help, by adhering kindly for the year 2017.

Below is an interactive membership form.

The more we are, the stronger we will be!

Richard C. ABITBOL

Chairman