EU Interior and Justice Ministers held emergency talks on Friday in Brussels after the Paris attacks raised troubling questions about the EU's security.
“Anti-Semitism is a core tenet of Islamic extremist ideology, so attacks on Jews by ISIS sympathizers should come as no surprise,” said Jonathan A. Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in a reaction to the stabbing of a Jewish man, teacher in a Jewish school, Wednesday night in the French city of Marseille.
The European Union’s decision to label products from Israeli settlements ‘’was a mistake,” Italian Member of the European Parliament Fulvio Martusciello said during a visit in Israel.
Addressing Monday an Israeli think tank, Hungary’s Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said his country does not support last week’s EU decision to label products from Israeli settlements.
EU Foreign Ministers will discuss again the issue of labeling of Israeli settlement products at a meeting in December, EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said Monday.
Hours after Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom appeared to link the Paris attacks to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the chairman of the Socialist Party (SP) in Holland said the perpetrators of the attacks acted in part out of frustration over the conflict.