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Members of the European Parliament take part in a voting session on February 6, 2018, in Strasbourg, eastern France. (AFP Photo/Frederick Florin)
April 19, 2018, 7:49 pm
In first, European Parliament condemns Hamas for terror, use of human shields
Resolution still slams IDF's use of live fire against Gaza marches on border and calls for lifting of Gaza blockade, but Israel says 'unprecedented anti-Israeli clauses were cut'
By Raphael Ahren
A Palestinian student reads her textbook on the light rail at Shuafat, Jerusalem, September 30, 2014 (photo credit: Elhanan Miller / Times of Israel)
April 18, 2018, 4:43 pm
EU resolves to nix intolerant content in Palestinian textbooks
Parliament passes two motions requiring that EU fund only educational programs committed to 'common values such as freedom'
By Raphael Ahren
French President Emmanuel Macron speaks before the European Parliament on April 17, 2018, in the eastern French city of Strasbourg. (AFP PHOTO / Frederick FLORIN)
April 17, 2018, 4:49 pm
Macron: Syria strikes were ‘for honor of international community’
In address to European Parliament, French leader warns divisions between democracy and authoritarianism in EU are like a 'civil war'
By Jérôme RIVET, Cedric Simon and Danny Kemp
An Israeli cartoon criticizing human rights violations in Iran, displayed next to the European Parliament in Brussels starting Wednesday, February 20, 2018. (Photo by AJC, TICP)
February 20, 2018, 3:44 pm
Snubbed by EU, Israeli cartoons slamming Iran go on display
European Parliament vetoes exhibition focusing on human rights violations in Islamic Republic as 'too controversial'
By Michael Bachner
BDS activist Omar Barghouti at a pro-boycott rally in Ramallah, February 2016. (YouTube screen capture)
February 18, 2018, 4:01 pm
Jewish groups slam hosting of BDS founder at European Parliament
Omar Barghouti's boycott movement 'opposes the very existence of the State of Israel as a Jewish state in any kind of borders,' say Jewish leaders
By JTA
Members of the European Parliament take part in a voting session on February 6, 2018, in Strasbourg, eastern France. (AFP Photo/Frederick Florin)
February 7, 2018, 5:47 pm
EU parliament fires Polish VP over Nazi insult
European lawmakers oust Ryszard Czarnecki for calling fellow Polish MEP a Nazi collaborator last month
By AFP and TOI staff
Participants at the European Parliament's commemoration of the Holocaust on January 24, 2018 (courtesy)
January 24, 2018, 6:12 pm
At Jewish-Roma Holocaust event, bowing heads to the ‘forgotten victims’
At first joint commemoration event at the European Parliament, MPs of Romani extraction warn Europe is again 'at a crossroads'
By Marissa Newman
Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein addresses the European Parliament in Brussels on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 24, 2018 (courtesy)
January 24, 2018, 4:09 pm
Knesset speaker: Europe leaders embrace Jews, but accuse Israel of ‘war crimes’
At Holocaust commemoration event, Yuli Edelstein accuses officials of sending contradictory messages in expressing solidarity with Jews while treating Hamas as legitimate
By Marissa Newman
A woman walks past a placard with the words European Parliament inscribed in several languages of the European Union member states outside the Espace Leopold on February 25, 2016 in Brussels, Belgium. (Ben Pruchnie/Getty Images via JTA)
January 24, 2018, 2:11 am
EU lawmakers grill visiting Iranian delegation on Holocaust denial, terror links
Tehran official dodges questions about 'disturbing' reports of regime spying on Israeli and Jewish targets in Germany
By JTA
President of the Iranian Parliament's Foreign Policy and National Security Committee Alaeddin Boroujerdi waits for the start of a press conference in Madrid, Thursday, Feb. 22, 2007 (photo credit: AP/Sergio Barrenechea)
January 21, 2018, 6:17 pm
EU to host a ‘key figure’ in Iran’s violent crackdown on protests
Israeli lawmakers and Jewish groups call on European Parliament panel to cancel meeting with senior MP Alaeddin Boroujerdi
By Raphael Ahren
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (L) speaks with EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini during a press conference following their meeting at the European Commission in Brussels on March 27, 2017. ( EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP)
January 18, 2018, 8:17 pm
EU mum on Abbas speech because ‘we don’t comment on comments’
'Our partners know very well where we stand,' Brussels says after Palestinian leader accuses Europe of using Jews for a 'colonial project'
By Raphael Ahren
In this November 30, 2017, photo, a man slices cuts of meat from a rotisserie Doner spit inside a Doner restaurant cafe in Frankfurt, Germany. (AP/Michael Probst, File)
December 14, 2017, 12:04 pm
EU Parliament fails to skewer shawarma meat phosphates
Decision pleases kebab industry, which says it needs additive to keep frozen meat juicy, tender and tasty
By Agencies
European Union Parliament member Cristian Dan Preda of Romania. (YouTube screenshot)
November 29, 2017, 11:17 pm
60 EU Parliament lawmakers: Cut funds to groups that back Israel boycotts
'We should not allow current stalemate in peace process to dictate terms of our relationship with Israel,' says one signatory
By JTA
Convicted Palestinian terrorist Leila Khaled speaks at an event in Beirut in January 2009. (CC BY 2.0, Sebastian Baryli, Wikipedia)
September 28, 2017, 10:59 pm
Lapid tries to block Palestinian terrorist hijacker from speaking in Spain
Leila Khaled, who spoke in EU parliament on 'The Role of Women in the Palestinian Popular Resistance,' now set to talk in Madrid
By TOI staff
Convicted Palestinian terrorist Leila Khaled speaks at an event in Beirut in January 2009. (CC BY 2.0, Sebastian Baryli, Wikipedia)
September 26, 2017, 4:55 pm
Palestinian terrorist hijacker to speak about women’s rights in EU parliament
Leila Khaled invited to Brussels to address event on 'The Role of Women in the Palestinian Popular Resistance'
By JTA
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