EU Withholds 200 Million Euros From Palestinian Authority, PA Enraged
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For years the Palestinian Authority has been criticized by the European Union for continuing to use textbooks full of antisemitic and violent passages, and for years the PA has pledged that it would deal with the problem and remove the offending material. It still hasn’t done so, and now the EU, exasperated with the promises that are never fulfilled, has finally done the only thing that might persuade the PA to revise those textbooks – it has withheld over 200 million euros in aid it had earmarked for the PA. A report on this withholding of EU aid is here: “Palestinian Authority Official Confirms Freeze on Millions in European Aid Over Textbook Concerns,” by Dion J. Pierre, Algemeiner, March 23, 2022:




