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Convicted Palestinian terrorist Leila Khaled speaks at an event in Beirut in January 2009. (CC BY 2.0, Sebastian Baryli, Wikipedia)

May 31, 2018, 11:44 pm

Israel urges Ireland to cancel speech by Palestinian terrorist

Minister Gilad Erdan sends Irish education minister protest letter, calls planned video address at Dublin club by plane hijacker Leila Khaled a 'theater of the absurd'

By Michael Bachner

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives at the European Parliament, prior to his interview on the data privacy scandal on May 22, 2018 at the European Union headquarters in Brussels. (AFP PHOTO / JOHN THYS)

May 22, 2018, 11:00 pm

‘I’m sorry’, Facebook boss tells European lawmakers

Mark Zuckerberg admits executives 'haven't done enough' to protect users' privacy, pledges to continue investing in Europe

By Lachlan CARMICHAEL

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes the keynote speech at F8, theFacebook's developer conference, May 1, 2018, in San Jose, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

May 16, 2018, 9:11 pm

Facebook’s Zuckerberg agrees closed-door talks with European lawmakers

Some paliamentarians angry that hearing over Cambridge Analytica data scandal will not be held in public forum

By Alex Pigman

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

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