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Lapid Urges EU to Reject Attempts to Boycott Israel
(European Jewish Press) Yossi Lempkowicz - During a visit to Brussels on Wednesday, Yair Lapid, the leader of Israel's opposition Yesh Atid party, met with EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mognerini and asked her to push for a joint statement by the 28 EU foreign ministers against attempts to boycott Israel. Mogherini emphasized that she and the entire EU oppose calls to boycott Israel. Mogherini continued to insist that the plan to label Israeli products from the West Bank, eastern Jerusalem and the Golan Heights as "Products from settlements" instead of "Products from Israel" "is in no way a boycott." Hungary, Greece and the Czech Republic have so far expressed their opposition to the EU labeling decision.