EU & PLO – to what end?

• Author: MOSHE DANN
• Published date: 06 October 2021
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

Is it because of a theologically based culture of animosity for Jews and the State of Israel? Why do they spend billions to fund anti-Israel NGOs as proxies to demonize and destroy Israel in another Holocaust?

The EU might argue that it is a humanitarian issue to support "Palestinian self-determination," but that means supporting the PLO, a corrupt, terrorist dictatorship that supports terrorism and opposes Israel's existence. Its partners in the Muslim Brotherhood-sponsored Hamas and jihadist gangs have the same goal.

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Hostility to Israel is linked to Arab money, fear of terrorism, business interests, etc. Another important reason is European culture's long history of Jew-hatred.

Support for the Nazis and National Socialism by Lutheran churches and the Vatican – actively and passively – is well documented. They all knew about the Holocaust and did nothing to help rescue Jews. Along with Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and the Vatican, Sweden declared itself "neutral" during World War II.

Although the Lutheran church eventually rejected Luther's vicious Jew-hatred, he is a revered religious and cultural figure in countries where the Lutheran Church is the national, "established" church, such as Norway and most Nordic countries, including Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Iceland; Germany is split between Catholics and Lutherans.

Although the EU recognizes Hezbollah's military wing as a terrorist group, it does not extend this designation to its political wing. Why?

This explains why European countries support anti-Israel NGOs which portray Palestinians as victims of Israeli "occupation and oppression." It explains, for example, why a Norwegian NGO recently depicted Palestinians as "crucified" by Israel, a blood libel used by Israel's enemies and the subject of a new book by Magda Teter, Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth.

NGO Monitor's website contains details about European-funded groups, including a number supported by the official Lutheran Church in Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark. The Ecumenical Accompaniment Program in Palestine and Israel, for example, trains "volunteers" to promote anti-Israel campaigns and propaganda throughout Europe and also in North America. The Church of Sweden also funds "Who Profits," a leading BDS organization.

Sweden was the first EU country to recognize a PLO-run...