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Israel Calls on EU to End Funding to Pro-Boycott Groups
(AP-ABC News) Tia Goldenberg - Israel called on the EU on Friday to halt funding to more than a dozen European and Palestinian non-governmental organizations that it says promote boycotts against Israel, saying the financial support violates the EU's stated policy that it opposes boycotts against the Jewish state. Israel's Strategic Affairs Ministry said some of the groups receiving EU money had links to militant groups. "The State of Israel expects the EU to act with full transparency and reveal the scope of its financial aid to organizations that have ties to terror and promote boycotts against Israel," the ministry said. "Israel strongly urges the EU to fully implement in practice its declared policy of rejecting boycotts against Israel, and to immediately halt funding to organizations which promote anti-Israel boycotts and de-legitimization." Israel said the NGOs received a total of 5 million euros ($5.9 million) in 2016.