Recent reports indicate that the European Union is considering a regulation requiring warning labels to be placed on Israeli imports, cautioning buyers that the products may be made in Israeli "settlements" or "colonies."
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It must be noted, however, that like the United Nations, which obsessively focuses on demonizing Israel while ignoring the worst human rights abusers in the world, the EU is not going to implement warning labels that advise its citizens that:
- Russia is occupying Crimea and east Ukraine.
- Saudi Arabia is one of the world's worst human rights violators.
- Iran is occupying large swaths of Iraq, is the world's largest sponsor of Islamist terrorism and hangs gays in the streets for the "crime" of being gay (it's worth noting that Israel is the only nation in the entire Middle East in which the LGBT community can live free, protected by law).
- In Indonesia, the law dictates that teenagers be publicly whipped for cuddling and that gays be whipped.
- Libyan Islamists routinely capture, terrorize and auction off black African slaves, some for as little as $400 (females and young girls are priced much higher).
Not one of the anti-Israel BDS organizations has mounted a campaign against any of the above human rights violators or terror-sponsoring nations, yet they claim they are not anti-Semitic.
This potential EU labeling policy is reminiscent of the Nazi boycotts of Jewish businesses during the late 1930s, in which stores owned by Jews were defaced by government thugs with "Jude" signs and warnings not to buy from Jews:
So why is the EU behaving in a racist, anti-Semitic way, by threatening to institute a boycott against Jewish products?
Hasn't Europe learned anything from World War II?
Reprinted with permission from JNS.org.
