The European Union has rolled out new regulations requiring special labels on items produced by Jews in the West Bank. While EU officials insist that the labels are for purely informational purposes, they clearly serve the interests of boycotters and other supporters of the anti-Israel cause. Judith Bergman writes:
There is a perversity about the labeling/boycott issue that seems to be completely lost on most Europeans, despite the obvious associations that it raises with Nazi Germany’s measures against Jewish shopkeepers. Conceivably, this is because many Europeans abhor the reminder and prefer to cast Israelis as the “new Nazis.” . . .
Especially perverse is the timing of the labeling. At a time when Arabs in Israel are stabbing and shooting as many Jews as they can get their hands on, while Arab leaders incite . . . murder in the name of fighting the “occupation” and every other conceivable excuse, Europe chooses to support the attacks implicitly by giving credence to the lie that terror has a moral justification. In this way, Europeans are in fact encouraging and perpetuating the conflict, as they and the international community have been doing for decades now by consistently and one-sidedly condemning Israel, while egging the other side on in its pursuits by giving it the credible impression that it can do no wrong, no matter what.
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