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British lawmakers press government for immediate ban on Israeli West Bank settlement imports

“If settlements are illegal, why have we not made an outright ban on trade? What exactly is it that we’re waiting for?” said Abtisam Mohamed, a Labour politician.

Member of Parliament Abtisam Mohamed looks on on the day Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers a ministerial statement on Hamas' October 7 attack anniversary and the Middle East at the House of Commons, in London, Britain, October 7, 2024.
View of the European Parliament during a plenary session in Brussels, Belgium, March 2, 2017.

The hypocrisy of Ireland’s EU presidency commitments - opinion

Gideon Taylor, president of the World Jewish restitution Organization (WJRO).

Italian Parliament advances groundbreaking bill to return Holocaust-era looted art

Demonstrators attend a pro-Palestinian protest on the day of the two-year anniversary of the attack on Israel by Hamas, in New York City, US, October 7, 2025. REUTERS

The civilizational divide: European Right aligned with Israel, America's Right aligned with Left


France saw rise in antisemitism, Islamophobia in 2023, report says

Reports of antisemitic and anti-Muslim acts in France increased by 284% and 29% respectively, France’s human rights commission, the CNCDH, said in an annual report published on Thursday.

 People attend a gathering, organized by CRIF Jewish organisation, in memory of Mireille Knoll, an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor stabbed and burnt in her Paris apartment in what authorities suspect could be an anti-Semitic murder, in Marseille, France March 28, 2018.

EP election results indicate a European awakening - opinion

The EP electorate’s surge in support for right-wing parties indicates that patience has run out, and immigration laws need changing. 

Workers adjust a European flag outside the EU Parliament ahead of the EU elections in Brussels

Surprisingly high scores: Israel-positive results seen in balloting abroad

Political Affairs: Results are coming in from elections for politicians indicating that Israel’s position in the world might not be as bad as the impression gleaned from social media and on campuses

 PARTIES ON the Right and far Right that are supportive of Israel gained seats in the recent European parliamentary elections, but that could prove to be a mixed blessing. Here, Alternative for Germany (AfD) Party co-leaders Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla react to results in Berlin.

Anti-Israel, pro-Iranian Irish activist Clare Daly loses seat in European Parliament

Irish leftwing pro-Palestinian Clare Daly lost her MEP seat. Known for criticizing Western militarism and Israel, she gained social media fame and appeared in Chinese and Russian media

 MEP Clare Daly taken on September 28, 2023.

Europe's wake-up call: The end of global warming debates and the return to national pride - opinion

The European left is dead. It is disconnected. The Conservative government in England will fall, and the right to the right of the Conservatives will grow stronger.

 THE WRITER (front row, fourth from left) is among the members of the task force appearing at a European Parliament hearing.

Far-right advances in EU election, France calls snap national vote

An exit poll for state broadcaster RAI said Brothers of Italy won between 26-30% of the vote, with the center-left opposition Democratic Party (PD) coming second with 21-25%

lection officials open a ballot box to count the votes, at a polling station for the European Parliamentary election, in Rome, Italy, June 9, 2024.

'Another blow to Iran': EU votes in favor of resolution against Islamic Republic

On Thursday, the EU parliament voted to condemn Iran, showing its support for Israel and acknowledging the role Iran plays in destabilizing the region.

 EU FOREIGN POLICY CHIEF Josep Borrell arrives to attend an EU-Israel Association Council in Brussels in 2022. ‘We really want to see Europe standing up and recognizing the right of Israel to protect itself,’ Szijjarto says.

UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese accuses Israel of lying about all aspects of Gaza

"Israel has been operating on the premise that if you tell a lie long enough. [If] you repeat it over and over,  people will believe it," Francesca Albanese to European Parliament

 You have the right to resist,” UN Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese speaking at a Hamas-affiliated conference in Gaza on November 30th

European Parliament votes on reform to remove hatred, violence from Palestinian education

The reform, according to the parliament, was passed so that the violent imagery taught in Palestinian textbooks prior would cease and no longer be an obstacle to peaceful solutions.

 Arab students in the classroom at the Noreen school, in the Jerusalem Arab neighborhood of Beit Hanina, on January 17, 2023.

Ireland seeking review of EU-Israel agreement over rights concerns

Ireland has long been a champion of Palestinian rights, and ministers have repeatedly said the government is considering recognizing a Palestinian state.

European flags fly outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium September 20, 2023.