Several EU parliamentarians are waging a lone battle against
the pro-Palestinian incitement taking over the benches of the
European Parliament.
"Killing Israelis is called resistance," shouted Patrick
Gover at the last incitement gathering against Israel in the
parliament in Strasbourg. The entire hall fired abuse at him.
The meeting chairman ordered him to leave the hall
immediately and violent guards drew near before he left of
his own accord. "Had I remained in front of them they would
have torn me to shreds," he later recounted.
A member of the French ruling party, UMP, and chairman of an
organization against antisemitism and racism, he stands
almost alone against the herd of EP members consumed with
hatred toward Jews and venting their derision through anti-
Israel initiatives. One-third of EP members support them.
In the plenum hall they feverishly discuss the state of
prisoners in Israel prisons, an issue that comes on the
agenda repeatedly and unflaggingly. In addition to a third of
the members, 200 outside participants arrived. EP
institutions funded the gathering and provided translation
services from Arabic into six languages. Faces turned crimson
when Patrick Gover interrupted the lecture of PLO
representative Leila Shahid, saying, "We'd like to know where
the Palestinian jails are located. When Palestinian bombs
kill Israeli women and children, you're not heard from
demanding the Geneva Convention be applied."
One of the parliamentarians said the goal of the meeting was
to stop the signing of a new agreement between Europe and
"the Palestinian state." Gover says many EP members are not
very familiar with the situation in Israel, but are drawn
into condemnations and the extreme language heard in the
plenum sessions. There is a pro-Israeli group, but it is
subsumed by the majority.
Palestinians have taken control of the European Parliament.
Two members lead the incitement: Louisa Morgantini of Italy
and Helen Flautre, a Green from France. They organize trips
to Gaza and the West Bank, visiting Israeli prisons and
Palestinian hospitals, where they photograph "the victims of
the Occupation." Elderly Palestinians, villagers, teachers
and other respectable figures are interviewed, telling one
lie after the next.
Leila Shahid, the ever-present PLO representative in Europe,
pulls the strings behind all of these perverse activities and
the EP members agree to play the game. According to Gover,
ever since its guilt pangs for collaborating with the Nazi
occupation, the European Left has tried to put the ball in
the Israeli court. Today they are the occupiers.
"I told them, `Instead of talking about the Palestinians'
suffering as a result of the separation barrier and the homes
that have been demolished, why don't you say you're trying to
do away with Israel?' Only then do they shut up and lower
their heads." Ever since the first president of the European
Parliament, Simone Weil, a Holocaust survivor from France,
the EP has undergone a transformation and turned into a
platform for antisemitism and hatred toward Israel. Most of
its members are unsuccessful politicians who were sent by
their parties to take advantage of the benefits of working
one week per month and a high salary. Due to utter boredom
many of them vent their darkest feelings. Gover says the only
issues that fill the plenum hall are Palestine and animal
rights.
