(JNS) There is a particular arrogance that Europe reserves for the Jewish people, and the European Union’s latest round of “human rights” sanctions has put it on full display.
The E.U.’s global human-rights sanctions regime exists, we are told, to punish the world’s torturers and executioners—the architects of genocide, the operators of prison camps, the men who order extrajudicial killings. It sits in judgment over the butchers of Pyongyang and the torturers of Tehran.
And now, onto that same list, the European Union has placed Israeli Jews and Jewish organizations, whose offense is attempting to build homes in the historic Jewish heartland of Judea and Samaria.
Consider what this equivalence asserts. To appear on this register is to be classified, in the moral architecture of the European Union, alongside men who torture dissidents to death and make their own citizens disappear. A Jew laying a foundation for a house is...
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