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Europe Must Stop Funding Demonization of Israel
(Ynet News) Ben-Dror Yemini - About a year ago, the Ramallah-based Popular Art Center staged a musical performance titled "No to laying down guns." The European Union funds the center as part of a special project for "increasing Palestinian public awareness of EU core values." The Women's Center for Legal Aid and Counseling (WCLAC) receives 2.5 million euros. One of its senior employees, Manal Tamimi, propagates anti-Semitic cartoons, often defines Israel as a Nazi state, and her tweets include content such as "I do hate Israel, I do hate Zionism, I wish a third intifada coming soon and people rise up and kill all these Zionist settlers everywhere." The EU would not dare fund such organizations as the Stop the War Coalition in Britain or Code Pink in America. But they do donate to such organizations in Israel. That is a double standard in all its glory. This article wouldn't have been written had Europe been funding bodies that advance peace and reconciliation.