UK group says EU funds 'incitement against Israel' as Ayalon denies existence of a Palestinian nation
The Taxpayers Alliance in the UK poses as an independent organisation when it is in fact staffed by supporters of David Cameron's Conservative party. No surprise then that it's research director Matthew Sinclair, speaking at a press conference in Jerusalem, shows himself to be a blind backer of the Israeli state, seeing the funding of Palestinian education as "incitement against Israel" and fomenting anti-semitism. As usual no proof is provided of the alleged anti-semitism the European Union is meant to be unwittingly funding. Israel's foreign minister Ayalon was also at the press conference and had some racism of his own to dish out.
A British taxpayer watchdog group unveiled two reports on Monday detailing the role of European foreign aid in the transmission of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic narratives in Palestinian Authority schools and media in Jerusalem.
The reports, “Palestinian Hate Education Since Annapolis” and “Funding Hate Education,” detail what the Taxpayers’ Alliance refers to as a campaign of “demonizing Israel” largely funded by European taxpayers, a policy it says diminishes long-term hopes for peace.
The Taxpayers’ Alliance said it has taken up the issue of incitement against Israel in the Palestinian territories because it believes there must be greater scrutiny of aid programs for the PA, so that taxpayer money from the UK and the EU no longer funds programs that harm the peace process and the national interests of British and EU citizens.
Matthew Sinclair, research director for the Taxpayers’ Alliance, said at a press briefing in Jerusalem, held with Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon, that in Palestinian society, “we’re looking at a population where 42 percent are under the age of 15. You have a huge younger generation whose views are going to shape the situation for a long time...
...He then related an anecdote from a debate with a British man at the London School of Economics, whom he asked: “‘Can you name one leader of Palestine, one king, one leader?’
“Of course they couldn’t because Palestine never existed,” Ayalon said.
“There has never been a Palestinian state,” he said. When we came here we didn’t find any other nation here. We aren’t going to argue narratives with the PA, he said.more
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