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Israel Reprimands Belgium for Supporting NGOs Aiming to Silence Pro-Israel Voices
(Jerusalem Post) Lahav Harkov - Israel Foreign Ministry deputy director-general for Europe Anna Azari summoned Belgium's Ambassador to Israel Jean-Luc Bodson for a reprimand on Monday after it was learned that the Belgian government is giving aid to a group of NGOs whose goals include "mitigating the influence of pro-Israel voices" - taking issue with the fact that the goal was explicitly anti-Israel, as opposed to pro-Palestinian. A Foreign Ministry source said that "the Belgians would never fund an organization that supports white supremacists or Catalonian separatists under the claim of free speech."