Report: The European Union Is Giving Millions Of Euros To Anti-Israel Groups Linked To Terrorism

By Theodore Shoebat

A report from Gilad Erdan, Israel’s minister for strategic affairs and public diplomacy, affirms that the European Union gives millions of euros to anti-Israel groups linked to terrorism. As we read in one report from Bloomberg:

European Union institutions have given millions of euros annually to non-governmental organizations with ties to Palestinian terrorist groups and that support boycotts of Israel, according to Gilad Erdan, Israel’s minister for strategic affairs and public diplomacy.

Examples include Norwegian People’s Aid, which received 1.76 million euros in EU aid in 2016, Erdan said in a 40-page report issued Friday. The group carried out a project with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which is classified as a terrorist group by the EU and U.S. The Norwegian group also provided services to Iran’s energy sector, Erdan said. It was fined $2 million in April by the U.S. Department of Justice because of the links.

“It is inconceivable that the EU is giving millions in European taxpayer money to organizations that promote boycotts against Israel — some of which are also connected to EU-designated terrorist groups,” Erdan said in a press release.

In a statement, the EU delegation in Israel said the bloc’s spending was subject to extensive monitoring. “We are therefore confident that EU financing does not go to support terrorism nor to BDS activities, as apparently suggested in the report,” it said.