Tag: European Union
EU announces humanitarian air corridor, triples Gaza aid
The European Union announced on Monday that it would launch a humanitarian air corridor to Gaza through Egypt, with the first flights expected this week.
"Palestinians in Gaza are in need of humanitarian help and...
Washington, Jerusalem divided on latter’s role in new ‘economic corridor’
The Biden administration announced what it called a “landmark” economic corridor between India, the Middle East and Europe at the G20 summit in New Delhi on Sept. 9.
The corridor will “stimulate economic development through...
Top European human-rights judge exposed as a Jew-hater
The European Court of Human Rights, which has jurisdiction over more than 46 countries and whose rulings are legally binding on all 27 member states of the European Union, is facing calls to re-examine...
European lawmakers: EU labeling policy is antisemitic
A delegation of parliamentarians from 10 European countries on Wednesday denounced the E.U. policy of exclusively labeling goods made in Israeli territory, calling it a violation of the universally recognized definition of antisemitism.
The hot-button...
EU Parliament calls for ‘public black list’ of radical NGOs
The European parliament voted on May 10 in favor of creating a “public black list” of NGOs. The list would identify nonprofits with “acknowledged ties to religious fundamentalist networks” that advocate agendas which undermine...
Post-Brussels meeting, Israel-EU summit in works, slated for Jerusalem
Israel’s Foreign Minister Eli Cohen met with his European Union counterpart Josep Borrell in Brussels on Tuesday with the two reconciling their recently thorny relations.
The talks lasted for more than two-and-half hours, including a one-on-one exchange...
130 US lawmakers urge EU to give terrorist stamp to IRGC
A bipartisan group of 130 U.S. lawmakers on Monday sent a letter urging the European Union to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization.
The letter, addressed to E.U. foreign policy chief...
EU foreign-policy chief barred from official visits to Israel
Israeli officials will not meet with Josep Borrell, the European Union’s high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, should he visit the Jewish state, following comments he made equating Palestinian terrorist attacks with...
We must act now to evacuate Khan al-Ahmar
There is no disputing the illegality of the Bedouin outpost of Khan al-Ahmar on the eastern outskirts of Jerusalem.
Its residents unlawfully built a housing complex on Israeli state-owned land without a permit and in...
EU vice president arrested for suspected bribery by Qatar
Eva Kaili, a European Parliament lawmaker and one of its 14 elected vice presidents, has been arrested, along with four others, in a bribery case involving Qatar. A suitcase of cash was found with...