NGO MONITOR
Jerusalem – “The European Union’s decision to label Israeli-made products from beyond the Green Line is another act in the ongoing NGO campaign to delegitimize Israel,” Professor Gerald Steinberg of NGO Monitor said. “This strategy is also the driving force of BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) campaigns, and it is led by EU-funded NGOs that are detrimental a peaceful, negotiated solution.”
For years, the EU has given money earmarked for humanitarian aid and peace-building to political groups that abuse human rights to promote their own agendas. These organizations have lobbied hard for the EU to adopt their ideas, with the rhetoric of “consumer choice” masking what is clearly an anti-Israel measure.
NGO Monitor research shows that NGOs push labeling as a first step in the BDS process, aimed at all Israeli products and services. This allows these NGOs to talk about the pre-1967 lines while actually targeting Israel within the 1948 borders.
The 2012 “Trading Away Peace” report is a prime example of such activity. In October 2012, 22 NGOs released “Trading Away Peace: How Europe Helps Sustain Illegal Israeli Settlements,” a report repeating the BDS agenda and calling on the EU and national governments to wage political warfare through various forms of economic sanctions on Israel.
The publication’s “Recommended measures (for national governments and the EU as appropriate)” begin with “correct consumer labelling of all settlement products as a minimum measure” (emphasis added) and increase in severity to “ban imports of settlement products,” “exclude settlement products and companies from public procurement tenders,” and “prevent financial transactions to settlements and related activities.”
Other examples can be seen in the recent actions of FIDH and its Palestinian affiliate Al Haq. In January 2013, Al Haq published its “Feasting on the Occupation” report, which described “the issue of labelling settlement produce, which Al-Haq considers as an interim measure in the process of adopting a ban [on trade in goods originating from Israeli settlements].” Al Haq’s Director Shawan Jabarin, who has been linked by Israeli and Jordanian authorities to the PFLP terror group, repeated this demand at aSeptember meeting of the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People held in Brussels.
the answer to euro anti semitism???
Its difficult for the euros to talk their jew stalking and libels when their heads are being chopped. I am sure that those russian mafias could handle the arrangements to set up a steady flow of pals to europe. Instead BB appears to continue to let the euros run rampant in Israel building muslim homes on the Jewish homeland… the man without a plan…. for anything.
I ahven’t heard anything from BB about the labeling and how he intends to deal with it….. has he left it in the hands of the retired michael oren to run around supermarkets in Israel stamping euro goods with ineffectual symbols?
It appears that BB’s vision of governance is to talk a lot until a subject is lost and dies and then move on to his next failure never implementing anything of substance: E1, Levy, Iran, tunnels, rockets, euro libels, etc etc etc… by the time he loses another battle of words it is replaced with a new battle of words and the fool public just forget the old one.
Get rid of all the anti-IL NGOs.
The Marxists of the EU include Merkel and the Foreign Secretary. Just as communists executed Jewish communists under Josef Stalin because they were Jewish, they are now increasing their attacks on the Jews of israel while swamping formerly Judeo-Christian lands with Islam. Marxism is Evil and has never done anything good for the world. .
Jew-hating Europeans are eager to revive the Nazi boycott of Jews.
It says a lot more about them than it does about Israel.
Once and for all we have to select leaders that know how and are ready to operate in an hostile, inimical setting, or We all will perish. We have consistently placed ourselves at the mercy of weak, stumbling, betraying garbage and that element has allowed the monsters to act w/o jeopardy.
LABELING: Since the EU as a whole is performing against us in the known anti-Semitic fashion known from the past we must act accordingly.
Labels for EU made products;
Germany: MADE IN Germany, Holocaust home center.
Austria: Made in AUSTRIA, Hitler’s birthplace.
FRANCE: Made in France, the white flag Land.
Spain: Made in Spain Home of the INQUISITION.
etc.
STOP WHINING AND lets SELECT LEADERS, PEOPLE!