Ursula von der Leyen: “Europe is the values of the Talmud”

BlackLimozine , 8 04. 2025 expedition/ursula-von-der-leyen-europa-to-value-talmud

According to Ursula von der Leyen, there is no Europe without European Jews. Europe and Israel must be friends and allies. Europe is the values of the Talmud.

The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, gave her speech at Ben-Gurion University, where she received Doctor honoris causa.

The speech was given any time ago, but it is only now echoing, sounding powerful in the hearts and minds of Europeans wanting to build a fresh large planet together with the Jews.

Ursula presented herself as a guardian of democracy courageously painting the world's imagination without nationalism, xenophobia, revisionism and anti-Semitism.

We quote passages of the speech, attaching to the movie and link to text that touching speech.

“First, there is no Europe without European Jews. Secondly, Europe and Israel must be friends and allies. due to the fact that Europe's past is the past of the judaic people. Europe is Simone Veil and Hannah Arendt. Europe is Mahler, Kafka and Freud. Europe is the values of the Talmud, a judaic sense of individual responsibility, justice and solidarity.

We have more in common than a geographic location might suggest. Our common culture and values have created a deep bond between Europe and Israel.

Your freedom of thought has turned a tiny country with only a fewer million inhabitants into a global pioneer of discipline and innovation. And democracy has strengthened our peculiar bond of relationship over decades.

Today, more than ever, democracies specified as Europe and Israel should be brought closer together.

Climate change is simply a major challenge facing our democracies. And no 1 understands this better than you, here on Negev. David Ben-Gurion believed that Israel's creativity and its pioneering spirit would be tested here on Negev, as he said. He always talked about "the work to make the desert flourish". And that's precisely what you've done since then. And I listened to what I was told about this university, how we can see at your School of Sustainable improvement and Climate Change. I admire how you test fresh building materials that can withstand desert heat – natural-based solutions – and how you have managed to adapt food crops to the desert climate. In the face of the forthcoming food crisis, we know that it will be technologies that will make a difference whether we deal with the food crisis and in time we will have independent production in susceptible countries or not. Thanks to all this, you have virtually made the desert flourish. Today, solutions you have worked on for decades can change the lives of millions of people around the world.

Diversity can be a immense force. However, the way to peaceful coexistence is long. And democracy is never achieved erstwhile and for all. This besides applies to the European Union. Like another democracies, Europe faces external threats, from disinformation to interference in our elections; and challenges within our societies, from nationalism to xenophobia, from revisionism to anti-Semitism.

We must strengthen our democracies and democratic lifestyles all day. We must cultivate our openness and our diversity. We must defend the freedom of our media, the independency of our judges, the equality of all people to the law.

Autocrats can't admit their mistakes. Democracy can always improve and correct. due to the fact that we humans can always improve it. due to the fact that we, people, we are the eventual guardians of democracy”.

Long live Europe.

I am Israel Chai.