Knesset speaker Yuli Edelstein delivers a speech in Hebrew to the Bundestag parliament in Berlin, calling Germany a strong ally of Israel.
Speaking on the EU decision to label settlement goods, Edelstein quotes Heinriche Heine, who said that “In a place where they burned books, in the end they will also burn people.”
“I fear that in a place where they label goods according to their place of production, they could also one day label people according to their origin,” Edelstein, who himself lives in a settlement, says.
Bundestag head Norbert Lammert tells Israeli journalists that the EU labeling regime is problematic, though he denies it is anti-Semitic.
“The law could have been implemented in a way that’s more equal on all occupied territories. That the decision targets only Israel is not necessary and not smart,” he says, according to Army Radio
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