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Israel on Their Minds
[Wall Street Journal Europe] Editorial - Never mind Iran's crackdown on peaceful protestors, China's killings of ethnic Uighurs or the epidemic murders of Kremlin critics. When it comes to Europe, the only country that really seems to engage their moral indignation is Israel. Calling for Israel to be sanctioned may be the one cause that unites British university lecturers and Scandinavian union activists with radical Islamists and neo-Nazis. Now, however, the European Court of Human Rights has called this fixation with the Jewish state what it is: discrimination. Last week, the Strasbourg-based court upheld a 2003 French court conviction against Jean-Claude Fernand Willem for advocating a boycott of Israel. The former mayor wanted to infringe on "the normal exercise of economic activity of the manufacturers based solely on the fact that they belong to a certain nation."