Tag: European Union
NGO Monitor: EU funding campaign to trigger UN sanctions against IDF
Palestinian and international NGOs, funded by European governments and working in tandem with the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), have launched a campaign seeking to trigger U.N. sanctions against the Jewish state,...
UNRWA textbooks under scrutiny by EU Parliament committee
Palestinian textbooks provided by the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) came under scrutiny during a recent hearing of the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee.
The attention was prompted by a report issued by the Institute for...
Some Western leaders are ‘divorced from reality’ with regard to Palestinians, Iran
Iranian diplomat Assadollah Assadi was sentenced to 20 years in prison this week for planning a bomb attack in Paris. His sentencing comes at a time when Europeans and the new U.S. administration are...
Netanyahu urges European leaders to block kosher slaughter ban
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has written to a number of European leaders, asking that they allow kosher slaughter to continue in their countries.
The letter went out to the leaders of Poland, Finland, Portugal,...
Building bridges: 2020 a successful year for Israel-Europe relations
The past year was relatively successful in terms of Israel’s relationship with Europe, according to a survey presented by Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi on Monday to the Jewish state’s ambassadors to European countries.
Among...
Achievements in 2020 in the battle against anti-Semitism
While the number of anti-Semitic incidents worldwide increased in 2020, there were several positive developments in the fight against this hatred.
The decision this year by the European Court of Justice that the Flemish and...
European hypocrisy laid bare in kosher-slaughter legal judgement
Last time I checked, the French were still preparing their famed foie gras delicacy using the method of “gavage.” This involves force-feeding a duck or a goose with grain passed through a tube over...
EU court upholds Belgian ban on kosher ritual slaughter
The European Court of Justice upheld a Belgian ban on religious slaughter, including kosher ritual slaughter without stunning, in a ruling released on Thursday.
The E.U. court ruled that the laws requiring animals to be stunned enable “a fair...
European Union makes move to combat anti-Semitism
A key body of the European Union adopted a declaration on Wednesday to combat anti-Semitism.
The Council of the European Union is comprised of government ministers from the 27 E.U. member-states, who meet to make...
Netanyahu thanks Romanian counterpart for presenting ‘sensible case’ to EU on Israel’s behalf
During a meeting on Tuesday in Jerusalem with visiting Romanian Prime Minister Ludovic Orban, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his appreciation for Bucharest’s assistance over the years in presenting a “sensible case” to...