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The Inversion of "Terror": The Ideological Architecture behind the EU's Settler Sanctions
(Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs) Tirza Shorr - Why does the European Union believe that four Israeli civic organizations belong on the same sanctions list as Hamas? The EU's 27 foreign ministers, who adopted the May 11, 2026, sanctions package unanimously, are operating inside a dogmatic intellectual framework divorced from evidence that continuously produces charges against Israel. A continent that cannot distinguish a Jewish farmer in Area C from a Hamas operative in Gaza will not be able to distinguish, when the moment requires it, between a citizen and a jihadist in its own cities. The writer is a senior researcher at the Jerusalem Center.