The United States on Wednesday condemned a United Nations Human Rights Council resolution that calls for setting up a database of businesses operating in the occupied West Bank, a move that Israel has called a “blacklist.”
A controversial bill that would compel NGOs receiving most of their funding from foreign governments to declare it in official reports passed its first reading in the Israeli parliament early Tuesday. The proposal — denounced by critics as likely to
The Jerusalem Post reports: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday called on individual EU states to pressure the European Commission to change its “double standard” toward Israel. Netanyahu’s call came during a meeting with visiting Estonian Foreign Minister Marina Kaljurand.
TEL AVIV — An Israeli minister blasted the European Union for its threats and boycotts against Israel, saying that no EU decision will “remove us from our land,” the Jerusalem Post reported.
European Jewish Press reports: BRUSSELS (EJP)—European Parliament President Martin Schulz expressed his opposition to the labeling of settlements products, saying that such a move mainly hurts the Palestinians ‘’who make an honest living in working in factories there.’’ He made
An angered Israel continues to mull its response to the European Union’s controversial decision to label Jewish products from Judea, Samaria and the Golan Heights. After Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu suspended contact with the EU in regard to the Israel-Palestinian conflict over
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, sat kiddy-corner in armchairs at this week’s international climate summit near Paris, talking and laughing. “We have the best of relations, and they can be made even better,” Netanyahu told
Israel said on Sunday it was suspending contacts with European Union (EU) bodies involved in peace efforts with the Palestinians after the bloc started requiring the labelling of exports from Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
