Antisemitic EU & ECRI policies on Israel cannot be whitewashed

ECRI's choice of the phrase "Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories" is itself a manifestation of antisemitism, denying Jews have the right to reconstitute their national homeland in any part of Judea and Samaria, even though their right to do so was legally mandated, indeed encouraged, by:

• The San Remo conference and Treaty of Sevres in 1920
• Article 6 and Article 25 of the 1922 League of Nations Mandate for Palestine
• Article 80 of the United Nations Charter

Labelling these territories "Palestinian territories", rather than "disputed territories", denies Israel's right to establish the Jewish national homeland in these territories and asserts that only the "Palestinian people", not the "Jewish people", has such a right.

ECRI's stated position is antisemitic under its own guidelines.

EU criticism of Israel's settlement policy in Judea and Samaria also ignores Israel's right to pursue that policy under the above internationally agreed consensus and is also antisemitic.

EU and ECRI, by their policies, statements and criticism of Israel in Judea and Samaria, are helping to fuel rapidly increasing antisemitism in Europe.

Antisemitism, wherever and whenever it appears, needs to be exposed, condemned and eradicated. Organizations and their leaders, including the EU and ECRI, who propagate antisemitic criticism of Israel need to be named and shamed.