Brussels, December 19th, 2018 - On Saturday 15th December Prime Minister of Australia Scott Morrison announced the Australian government's decision to recognise West Jerusalem as capital of the State of Israel. The Prime Minister stated that "furthermore, recognising...
News Review of 2018 regarding Israel, the Middle East and the EU. Simon Barrett is joined by MEP Bill Etheridge, ECI Special Envoy Andreas Kelling and ECI Founding Director Tomas Sandell.
ECI: Europe needs a coherent and positive attitude towards the Jewish people and the Jewish state to fight antisemitism Brussels, December 11th, 2018 – A new survey, conducted by the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), has found an increasing level of antisemitism...
Brussels, December 9th, 2018 – Amid Hanukkah celebrations and the first ever European Council resolution against antisemitism, the European Coalition for Israel celebrated on Thursday its 15th anniversary in what turned out to be a historic day for Israel in Brussels....
The Iranian threat to Israel and the Middle East. Simon Barrett is joined by MEP Bas Belder, Michael Sieveking from AJC Transatlantic Institute, and ECI Founding Director Tomas Sandell.
Budapest, November 28th, 2018 – A new CNN poll, released on Monday, has revealed that antisemitism still poses a serious threat to Jewish communities across Europe. The findings reflect earlier polls by the European Union and Jewish organizations which have for years...
Brussels, November 13th, 2018 – Hamas in Gaza, which is recognized internationally as a terrorist group, has fired more than 400 missiles into Israel in the last twenty four hours in what the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have called the largest ever bombardment of...
EU's funding of Palestinian textbooks. Simon Barrett is joined by MEP Anders Primdahl Vistisen, Chief Executive Officer of Impact-se, Marcus Sheff, and ECI Founding Director Tomas Sandell.
Moscow, October 29th, 2018 – There is no excuse for the barbaric shooting inside the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh which left eleven people dead on Saturday, ECI Founding Director Tomas Sandell said on Sunday in Moscow, one day ahead of the opening of the...
EU's funding of UNRWA, the UN Relief agency for Palestinian refugees. Simon Barrett is joined by MEP Peter Niedermüller, Director of Israel Britain Alliance, Michael McCann and ECI Brussels Representative Ruth Isaac.
Brussels, October 1st, 2018 – The European Coalition for Israel welcomes the recent vote by the European Parliament's Budgetary Committee to freeze more than 15 million Euros in funding to the Palestinian Authority if they do not remove incitement to hatred from their...
New York, September 10th, 2018 - The Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, wished the Jewish world “Shanah Tovah”- “A Happy New Year”- at an official Tashlich ceremony co-hosted by the Forum for Cultural Diplomacy (FCD) and the Israeli Permanent...