After Israel’s Channel 13 reported on a six-page leaked European Union (EU) document describing plans to facilitate a Palestinian land grab in Judea and Samaria, Forty Israeli lawmakers accused the EU of “blood libel” in a letter to its leaders. “The six-page document calls for mapping the territory to prove Palestinian rights to the land and monitoring Israeli archaeological activity, as ancient Jewish ties reinforce Israeli claims.”
“We were apparently mistaken in thinking that racist, religious hatred of Jews and Israel was a thing of the past,” states the letter, which 40 Israeli parliamentarians signed. “It saddens us to discover time and time again that under the thin veneer of the EU’s civility and manners and the seeming concern for human rights, the same old blood libels can be found, along with the same flames of primitive hatred that seek this time to persecute – not the individual Jew, but the tiny Jewish state.”