For several years, to facilitate those who wish to boycott the Jewish state, German neo-Nazi parties have endorsed special labeling for Israeli imports. Now the call has become mainstream, as Benjamin Weinthal writes:
European Union countries [have called for the labeling of] products from settlements in disputed territories in the West Bank and the Golan Heights, as well as in east Jerusalem. If labeling Jewish goods sounds darkly reminiscent, it does as well to Germany’s neo-Nazi groups, who have recently co-opted the country’s BDS movement.
[L]abeling goods from east Jerusalem is a brazen act of economic warfare from Europe, and one that violates the principles of the very peace process Europe claims to promote. The 1993 Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestinians said merely that Jerusalem is a subject for final-status negotiations, not a “settlement.” The European Union itself defines Jerusalem as a corpus separatum—a “separate body” whose status is subject to negotiation—rather than occupied territory. More broadly, the drive to label Israeli merchandise has allowed Germany’s resurgent far-right to push its way to the front of the anti-Israel movement.
Read more on New York Post: http://nypost.com/2015/06/11/europes-economic-war-on-israel/