EU Parliament head: Labeling products will harm Palestinian workers

The head of the European Parliament Martin Schulz tells Knesset Speaker Yuli Eldestein that the EU guidelines calling for all Israeli products made in settlements will have a detrimental effect mainly on Palestinian workers.

“Germany and Israel have good relations, as opposed to Sweden-Israel relations, as we can see today,” he says. “Surging anti-Semitism is a problem for the whole of Europe. I am opposed to labeling settlement products. It primarily affects Palestinians who make an honorable living.”

Edelstein says in response that, “Countries and people in Europe cannot say that they oppose anti-Semitism and in the same breath be anti-Israelis. Israel will survive the product labeling. Those who cannot survive are the thousands of Palestinian families who work shoulder to shoulder with their Jewish colleagues and who build shared lives.”

— Raoul Wootliff