Broader View

The Gaza War and Europe: Can the Continent Play a Positive Role in The Middle East? by Efraim Inbar, The Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security (INSS), September 8, 2024

Rockets from Gaza and Rockets from the EU by Shoshana Bryen, Jewish Policy Center, May 12, 2023

EU and UN Illegally Funding Palestinian Projects by Benjamin Weinthal, InFocus, Spring 2023

Europe’s Proxy War against Israel by Bassam Tawil, Gatestone Institute, February 13, 2023

The European Union’s Subversion of Israel by Melanie Phillips, Jewish News Syndicate, December 22, 2022

Israel’s controversial Maccabean Three may be channeling Jewish history all over again.

Statements of support for Israel from European leaders during the Gaza escalation, The European Leadership Network (ELNET), June 2021

Israel-Europe ties improving, warming up to Abraham Accords by Lahav Harkov, The Jerusalem Post, January 5, 2021

Europe Can’t Fight Antisemitism While Ignoring Threats To Israel by David Harris, Politico Europe, December 14, 2020

Europe Must Put Aside Its Outdated Thinking by David Harris, AJC, Bild, August 17, 2020

Tens of Millions of Europeans Have Demonic Views of Israel by Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld, The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,494, March 20, 2020

Tens of millions of European citizens have a demonic view of Israel. This manifests itself in a variety of ways, the most serious of which is comparing Israel’s actions against the Palestinians to those of the Nazis against the Jews. The demonization of Israel leads to antisemitic insults directed against Jews in general. The EU and its member states, but also the Israeli government, have been greatly negligent in dealing with this problem.

In Europe, Israel needs a bottom-up approach to diplomacy by Evelyn Gordon, Jewish News Syndicate, December 11, 2019

Most people don’t care that much about Israeli-Palestinian issues, so small groups of committed activists can exert a disproportionate influence on policy.

Our European ‘friends’ by Caroline Glick, Jewish News Syndicate, November 17, 2019

The European Court of Justice’s ruling to label goods produced in Judea and Samaria is nothing short of an anti-Semitic bombshell.

EU’s Highest Court Opens Pandora’s Box of Politicized Product Labeling for All Countries that Export to the EU, The Lawfare Project, November 12, 2019

The EU Is Battling Israel in Area C by Hillel Frisch, The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,275, September 2, 2019

Why such a surge of worldwide antisemitism by Alan Dershowitz, IsraPundit, February 17, 2019

Why Viktor Orban Will Get a Warm Welcome in Jerusalem by Zev Chafets, Bloomberg, February 7, 2019

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will reward Central Europe’s leaders for their loyalty and send a message to western countries too.

The Birth of Israel: Prague’s Crucial Role by Jiri Valenta and Leni Friedman Valenta, Middle East Quarterly, Winter 2019

Mission Impossible? Repairing the Ties between Europe and Israel by Fiamma Nirenstein (ed.), The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, December 2018 [pdf]

A pervasive false impression by Evelyn Gordon, Commentary, November 26, 2018

Jews feel safer in Europe’s conservative east than its liberal west

Khan al-Ahmar and the EU’s Violation of Signed Agreements by Amb. Dore Gold, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, November 12, 2018 (includes video, 7’42”)

UNESCO: Why the United States Needs to Watch Out by Shoshana Bryen, Gatestone Institute, October 18, 2018

Is the anti-Israel tide in Europe starting to turn? by Ariel Kahana, Israel Hayom, October 15, 2018

Fighting the good fight in Europe by David M. Weinberg, Israel Hayom, August 31, 2018

Europe makes an about-face on Israel by Melanie Phillips, Jewish News Syndicate, May 31, 2018

France Is Hypocritical on Israel, the U.S., and ‘International Law’ by Michel Gurfinkiel, PJ Media, May 23, 2018

Trump Admin Thwarts Irish Effort to Boycott Israel, Criminalize Trade by Adam Kredo, The Washington Free Beacon, February 5, 2018

Officials scrambled to stop Irish effort to criminalize trade with Jews

Polish-Jewish Relations: A Case Study in What Can Go Wrong by David Harris, AJC, The Times of Israel, February 2, 2018

Poland and the Jewish World: A Defining Moment by David Harris, The Times of Israel, January 28, 2018

Mind-blowing European Union chutzpa by David M. Weinberg, Israel Hayom, October 20, 2017

Israel’s Diplomacy Gets Serious and Gets Results by Evelyn Gordon, Commentary, June 7, 2017

Why Israel Got Into a Dust-Up With Germany by Daniel Gordis, Bloomberg View, May 1, 2017

Netanyahu couldn’t take the Europeans’ courting of a group [Breaking the Silence] critical of the Israeli army any more.

The Politics of Netanyahu vs. Germany by Michael J. Koplow, Israel Policy Forum, Matzav Blog, April 27, 2017

Journalist Highlights Switzerland’s War on Israel by Sean Durns, Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in American (CAMERA), March 10, 2017

Switzerland has been funding several anti-Israel organizations, including some who belong to the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, according to a March 6, 2017 Jerusalem Post report by correspondent Benjamin Weinthal.

Dear Irish Foreign Minister Charles Flanagan by David Harris, The Huffington Post, February 12, 2017

BDS: The European-funded ‘grassroots’ campaigns by Tamar Kogman, The Jerusalem Post, February 5, 2017

EU Funding to NGOs Active in Anti-Israel BDS Campaigns, NGO Monitor, January 23, 2017

Dear French Foreign Minister Ayrault by David Harris, The Times of Israel, January 9, 2017

Britain Starting to Punish Anti-Semitism by Michael Curtis, American Thinker, December 20, 2016

Brits turn their backs on Israel boycotts by Justin Cohen, The Times of Israel, November 4, 2016

A dramatic rise in opposition to boycotts of Israel among the British public is revealed in a new survey published today.

From BDS to Murder: a French perspective by Noam Ohana, The Times of Israel, October 19, 2016

We are well aware of the fact that not all BDS activists deny the right of Israel to exist; and not all of those who refuse the idea of a Jewish State are anti-Semites; and not all of those who are anti-Semites support the use of terror; and not all of those who support terrorism are willing to act on it. But we also know that all of those who killed French Jews were initially driven by an obsessive anti-Israel hatred that they could not contain, and that spilled over in a Jewish school and in a kosher supermarket. [….] You can take our word for it, extreme anti-Israel rhetoric always leads to the killing of Jews.

There are other voices in Europe by Ariel Bolstein, Israel Hayom, July 28, 2016

A Deadly EU Blind Spot on Israel by Evelyn Gordon, Commentary, July 20, 2016

Video: Jihad Awakens Europe (5’33”), Daniel Pipes, Gatestone Institute, July 15, 2016

What EU Wants Israelis Not to Know by Evelyn Gordon, Commentary, July 14, 2016

An organization that gets most of its funding from a foreign government isn’t a “nongovernmental” organization at all, but an instrument of that government’s foreign policy.

The European Parliament Rewards Hate by Evelyn Gordon, Commentary, June 24, 2016

Europe is not lost by Larry J. Hochberg, Jewish Journal, May 5, 2016

Europe: Do the Right Thing on Hezbollah by David Harris, The Times of Israel, April 27, 2016

ISIS Makes the EU More Anti-Israel by Evelyn Gordon, Commentary, March 30, 2016

Israel and Europe after Brussels: What Insights Can We Share? by Col. (res.) Dr. Eran Lerman, Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies-Bar-Ilan University, March 30, 2016

Israel, which unfortunately has had a great deal of experience with terrorist violence, has much to offer Europe in its own confrontation with Islamist terror. Once Europe has internalized the reality that it is fighting a war, Israel can advise it regarding strategies like effective intelligence collection, disruption of enemy money supply, and interference with enemy access to the internet.

French Diplomacy on “Palestine” Will Run Aground by Shoshana Bryen, American Thinker, March 3, 2016

PA violence is elephant in the room that EU can no longer ignore by Alex Benjamin, The Times of Israel, February 19, 2016

Commemorating Dead Jews While Hating the Living by Judith Bergman, The Algemeiner, January 29, 2016

The E.U. vs. B.D.S.: the Politics of Israel Sanctions by Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, January 22, 2016

The Problem is the EU, not the NIF by Evelyn Gordon, Commentary, January 19, 2016

EU Makes Up Bogus Laws to Target — Guess Who? by Denis MacEoin , Gatestone Institute,  December 10, 2015

EU’s Economic Hold over Israel Wanes by Evelyn Gordon, Commentary, December 3, 2015

Why Is the EU Stigmatizing Israel? by David Walzer, Politico, October 23, 2015

On Europe, terrorism and demonizing Israel: Time for a reset by Gerald M. Steinberg, The Times of Israel, October 19, 2015

The Society That Abandons Its Jews Abandons Itself by Ruth Wisse, Mosaic, October 12, 2015

Why does the left care more about Islamophobia than anti-Semitism? by Brendan O’Neill, The Spectator, September 9, 2015

To Fight Anti-Semites, Jews Must Defend Zionism by Jonathan S. Tobin, Commentary, September 4, 2015

Europe’s NGO Jihad Against Israel by Susan Warner, Gatestone Institute, August 27, 2015

EU Should Be Pushed on Treatment of ‘Occupied Territories’ by Evelyn Gordon, Commentary, July 22, 2015

An obsession with Israel that even trumps national self-interest by Evelyn Gordon, The Jerusalem Post, July 1, 2015

Lessons from the past by Judith Bergman, Israel Hayom, June 19, 2015

Europe’s Anti-Israel Obsession Trumping Both Its Democracy and Its Economy by Evelyn Gordon, Commentary, June 5, 2015

Worrying signals from Europe by Zalman Shoval, Israel Hayom, May 26, 2015

Dutch, British and German MPs condemn PA deception, Antisemitism, and terror glorification by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik, Palestinian Media Watch, May 25, 2015 (see also Foreign aid scandal: UK money is ‘STILL going to convicted Palestinian terrorists’ by Anil Dawar, Sunday Express, May 22, 2015)

Hamas, Europe and How to Get a State by Uzay Bulut, Gatestone Institute, May 23, 2015

A Defining Moment for Europe by Daniel Schwammenthal, The Jerusalem Post, April 27, 2015

Charlie Hebdo and the Future of Europe by Benjamin Kerstein, The Tower Issue 23, February 2015

Is Europe too dangerous for Jews? Leading Holocaust historian shares her rising level of alarm, by Danielle Berrin, Jewish Journal, January 14, 2015 (an interview with Deborah Lipstadt)

The rising tide of anti-Semitism by Ronald S. Lauder, Jerusalem Post, March 26, 2015

Europe’s Wave of Anti-Semitism Can Be Stopped. Here’s How by Benjamin Kerstein, The Tower Issue 24, March 2015

After Copenhagen, What Next for Europe? by David Harris, Huffington Post, February 15, 2015

European Anti-Semitism Starts from the Top by Evelyn Gordon, Commentary, February 11, 2015

Video (4’59”): Danish ambassador, JPost’s Caroline Glick exchange verbal blows over EU attitude toward Israel, January 19, 2015

Are Jews safe in Europe? by Benjamin Weinthal and Asaf Romirowsky, Philadelphia Inquirer, January 15, 2015

After the Attacks in France, What Next? by Rep. Nita Lowey and David Harris, Huffington Post, January 12, 2015

The first step toward defeating Islamist terrorism by David Horovitz, The Times of Israel, January 8, 2015

The Palestinians’ Real Enemy: Europe by Bassam Tawil, Gatestone Institute, December 28, 2014

The EU’s Hamas Fiasco Exposes Broken System by Gerald M. Steinberg, Times of Israel, December 20, 2014

Europe is torpedoing the Palestinian State by Lawrence Grossman, Times of Israel, December 7, 2014

Sweden’s Palestinian Refugee Contradiction by Einat Wilf and Jonathan Schanzer, The Jerusalem Post, November 18, 2014

The UK, Swedish and Irish Parliamentary Recognition of Palestine – Legally, Historically and Politically Questionable by Amb. Alan Baker, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem Issue Brief Vol. 14, No. 35, October 27, 2014

Why Europe Is Irrational About Israel by David P. Goldman, PJ Media, October 14, 2014

Which Palestine Do Euros Recognize? by Jonathan S. Tobin, Commentary, October 13, 2014

Why are the Nordic countries so cold to Israel? by Raphael Ahren, The Times of Israel, October 7, 2014

Europe’s Alarming New Anti-Semitism by Jonathan Sacks, Wall Street Journal, October 2, 2014

IDF Saves Irish Troops from Jihadists by Evelyn Gordon, Commentary, September 8, 2014

Why Europe Must Not Be Trusted to Monitor Hamas by Soeren Kern, Gatestone Institute, September 2, 2014

Why Do Europeans Increasingly Hate Israel? by Harold Brackman, Louis D. Brandeis Center, August 3, 2014

Gaza: the EU’s Split Personality and America’s Failed UN Human Rights Council Experiment by Elliott Abrams, Council on Foreign Relations, July 24, 2014

Czech President Milos Zeman Gives Amazing Speech about Islam, Israel and Anti-Semitism by Daniel Greenfield, FrontPage Magazine, June 2, 2014

An Unconventional Look at European Bias Against Israel by Timon Dias, Honest Reporting, April 17, 2014

The anti-Israel campaign in Germany by Vijeta Uniyal, The Commentator, March 31, 2014

The boycott campaign against Israel is trying to make inroads in Germany by wooing the political Left and employing underhand tactics such as “Lawfare”. Its practitioners rely on the inaction of the German people who willingly will have no part in this.

Europe’s Alarming Push to Isolate Israel by Alan Dershowitz, Newsmax, March 11, 2014

EU Report, EU Money Threaten Israel by Shoshana Bryen, PJMedia, March 14, 2014

Some hard questions about Western European double standards against Israel by Alan Dershowitz, Jerusalem Post, March 12, 2014

The European war on Israel’s courts by Anne Herzberg, Jerusalem Post, March 1, 2014 (full report: Exploiting Justice: How the UK, EU, & Norway Fund NGO Lawfare vs. Israel, NGO Monitor, February 20, 2014)

Why Israel No Longer Trusts Europe by Clemens Wergin, New York Times, February 28, 2014

A European Boycott of Israel? by Steven J. Rosen, Middle East Quarterly, Spring 2014

Why does the EU continue to fund anti-peace NGOs? by Gerald Steinberg, Jerusalem Post, February 11, 2014

Future EU Sanctions Against Israel? Real, Imagined, and Somewhere in Between, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem Viewpoints No. 600, March-April 2014

Confronting European funding for BDS by Gerald M. Steinberg, Times of Israel, January 29, 2014

Why is this occupation different from all other occupations? by Raphael Ahren, Times of Israel, December 25, 2013

The EU insists that Turks in Cyprus and Moroccans in Western Sahara ‘cannot be compared’ to Israelis in the West Bank. Two legal scholars are fighting a losing battle to find out why

PA rejects EU demand not to fund terrorists with EU money by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik, Palestinian Media Watch, December 24, 2013

EU, Israel Reach “Compromise” on Science vs. Settlements by Soeren Kern, Gatestone Institute, November 27, 2013

The EU is right about Western Sahara — which means it is wrong about Israel by Eugene Kontorovich, Global Post, November 21, 2013

“The European Union makes up its own rules for engaging with occupied territories.”

EU project lists indicate Israel is less liberal than any Arab country by Elder of Ziyon, October 17, 2013

£1.95bn EU aid lost in Palestine by Bojan Pancevski, The Sunday Times, October 13, 2013

EU’s Israel Grants Guidelines: A Legal and Policy Analysis by Prof. Avi Bell and Prof. Eugene Kontorovich, Kohelet Policy Forum, October 3, 2013

E.U.’s North Cyprus Funding Contradicts, Endagers Stance on Israeli West Bank Projects, TheTower.org, October 2, 2013

How the EU directly funds settlements in occupied territory by Eugene Kontorovich, Jerusalem Post, September 28, 2013

EU: What’s Fine for Spain Is Unacceptable for Israel by Evelyn Gordon, Commentary, September 24, 2013

Questions for the European Left by Pilar Rahola, Church and State, September 21, 2013

Europe: Anti-Israel or Anti-Semitic? by Soeren Kern, Gatestone Institute, September 20, 2013

What should Israel do about Europe? by Dore Gold, Israel Hayom, August 16, 2013 Europe’s “Moral Values” by Guy Millière, Gatestone Institute, July 31, 2013

The Unpleasant Truth about European Anti-Semitism (interview with Manfred Gerstenfeld) by Gary Rosenblatt, New York Jewish Week, July 30, 2013 (see also: The Untold Truth: 150 Million Europeans Hate Israel (an Interview with Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld) by Simon Plosker, Honest Reporting, Part 1, July 1, 2013, and Part 2, July 11, 2013)

False Witness? EU-Funded NGOs and Policymaking in the Arab-Israeli Conflict by Gerald M. Steinberg , Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs, Vol. II No. 2, May 15, 2013

Europe and Israel’s Day After by David Harris, Times of Israel, October 23, 2012

Europe Still Hasn’t Learned Lessons From Failed Peace Process by Evelyn Gordon, Commentary, October 6, 2011

My Optimism About Europe by Daniel Pipes, National Review Online, February 8, 2011

Europe’s Anti-Semitism by Samara Greenberg, Jewish Policy Center, October 14, 2010

Europe Reverts to Type by Bret Stephens, Wall Street Journal, September 14, 2010