According to this definition says that criticisms of Israel, which contend that the establishment of that state was a “racist endeavor” or which compare Israel’s attacks on the Palestinians to the behavior of the Nazis during the Second World War, should be considered as anti-Semitism. Ottolenghi’s new booklet invokes that definition to call on the EU to declare campaigners critical of Israel ineligible for funding from those sections of Union’s budget dealing with the promotion of human rights and democracy. It is “curious,” he argued that EU financial support has gone to nongovernmental organizations NGOs “whose work depicts Israel as a racist society and an apartheid regime.”
via ei: Pro-Israel lobbies target Europe.
