Germany’s ruling party pans EU labeling guidelines

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Germany realizes 75 years later - after one of the greatests act of insanity ever - how wrong it is to label Jews, and only the Jews.

Germany’s ruling party, the Christian Democratic Union, warned Thursday of the “danger” of the European Union’s new labeling guidelines for Israel, which identifies products made in settlements beyond the 1967 borders.

“This decision might not bring advantages in consumer protection,” Jurgen Hardt told JTA on Thursday about new regulations published the previous day by the European Commission. Hardt is the foreign policy spokesman for the parliamentary group in the Bundestag of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party.

“In this case there foremost is a danger of a stigma. An anti-Israeli movement might exploit the decision and put it to use on anti-Israeli campaigns,” he said.

The regulations adopted Wednesday require separate labeling for Israeli products sold in the European Union when they are either packaged or produced in the West Bank, East Jerusalem or the Golan Heights. It also requires labels on such products specify whether they were produced by Israelis or Palestinians.

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1. Greece to defy EU order on labeling settlement goods (and Hungary too)

http://www.timesofisrael.com/greece-to-defy-eu-order-on-labeling-settlement-goods/

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2. Of course, it does not matter that these places in the West Bank employ

many Palestinians who can thus support their families and not be dependent on American tax payers...