[Opinion] Will the EU Preserve Its Democracy?
If the European Union wishes to preserve its cultural character, it must protect all its citizens from racism by legislation and its vigorous implementation.
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Funders: | France |
Start date: | 1 Jan 1988 |
End date: | 23 Jun 2018 |
If the European Union wishes to preserve its cultural character, it must protect all its citizens from racism by legislation and its vigorous implementation.
NGOs that claim to promote human rights often use antisemitic themes and imagery, including blood libels, theological antisemitism, new antisemitism, and exploitation of the Holocaust.
Contrary to the claims of the 22 NGOs, a two-state solution can only be achieved around the negotiating table, and not through politicized attacks against Israel.
Breaking the Silence uses European government funding to make sweeping accusations based on anecdotal, anonymous, and unverifiable accounts of low-level soldiers.
On November 19, 2008, Israeli Foreign Minister, Tzipi Livni, announced that Israel will not participate in the Durban Review Conference in Geneva in April 2009, joining Canada as the only governments to formally boycott the conference. She noted the Draft Outcome Document, which "singl[es] out and delegitimiz[es] the State of Israel," and "legitimiz[es] hatred and extremism and anti-Semitism under the banner of a fight against racism." The US, the UK, France, and Denmark have threatened to boycott the conference, as well.