TFI Coverage
Major News Outlets Cover Call for EU Ban of Hezbollah
On the anniversary eve of Hezbollah's bomb attacks in Argentina in 1994 and Bulgaria in 2012, the leadership of the Transatlantic Friends of Israel presented to EU leaders a historic transatlantic call for an EU ban of Hezbollah signed by 236 lawmakers from 27 European countries, the U.S., Canada, and Israel.
The declaration launch received wide coverage in the international media, including in Politico Europe, as well as in newspapers in the US, Germany, Poland, Italy, Bulgaria, the Baltics and of course Israel:
POLITICO: https://www.politico.eu/article/the-eu-must-ban-hezbollah-lawmakers-warn...
I24 English: https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/1595052370-hundreds-of-us-e...
I24 French: https://www.i24news.tv/fr/actu/international/1594989298-des-centaines-de...
Jerusalem Post: https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/eu-must-designate-hezbollah-as-terror-...
Arutz Sheva/Israel National news: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/283738
News 24: https://news-24.fr/des-centaines-de-legislateurs-appellent-lue-a-interdi...
Israel Noticias: https://israelnoticias.com/internacional/legisladores-union-europea-hezb...
Formiche (Italian): https://formiche.net/2020/07/lue-bandisca-hezbollah/
24 Chasa (Bulgaria): https://www.24chasa.bg/novini/article/8820492
News BG (Bulgaria) : https://news.bg/world/stotitsi-deputati-prizovaha-es-da-zabrani-hizbula-...
European Jewish Press: https://ejpress.org/over-230-lawmakers-from-europe-north-america-and-isr...
Mosaic: https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/politics-current-affairs/2020/07/the-eu...
Israel Hayom: https://www.israelhayom.com/2020/07/19/us-european-lawmakers-call-on-eu-...
The Hill: https://thehill.com/policy/international/507811-hundreds-of-multinationa...
Welt: https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article211845455/Terrormiliz-Hundert...
DELFI (Baltic press agency): https://www.delfi.lv/news/arzemes/eiropas-savienibu-aicina-pilniba-aizli...
Wyborcza (Polish’s daily newspaper): https://wyborcza.pl/7,75399,26139159,parlamentarzysci-z-europy-usa-i-izr...
Jüdische Allgemeine: https://www.juedische-allgemeine.de/politik/transatlantische-initiative-...
Jewish News (UK)
https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/200-politicians-urge-eu-to-dismiss-...
Counterpoint: Any Progress in Geneva over Iran's Nuclear Program?
The P5+1 met with Iranian officials for two days of negotiations of the latter's illegal nuclear program. Years of talks have, to date, failed to make any progress. Was this time different? Joshua Goodman talks to Daniel Schwammenthal (Director of the AJC Transatlantic...
Counterpoint: Did the Rouhani 'Charm Offensive" Work at the UN?
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani went to the UN to present a softer side to his country. Did it work? Joshua Goodman put that question to Roland Freudenstein of the Centre for European Studies.
AJC Welcomes Release of Nasrin Sotoudeh from Iranian Prison
September 18, 2013 – New York – AJC welcomed the release of Nasrin Sotoudeh from an Iranian prison today. A courageous women’s rights advocate and lawyer, Sotoudeh received the prestigious European Parliament 2012 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. Eleven other prisoners of conscience also...
AJC Transatlantic Institute Calls for the Cancellation of Planned Iran Visit
18 September 2013 - Brussels - The AJC Transatlantic Institute called on the European Parliament’s Delegation for Relations with Iran to halt plans for a visit to Tehran this fall. At today’s delegation meeting, Chair Tarja Cronberg (Greens/EFA, Finland) announced her...
Finally, EU Makes Hezbollah Pay for Terror in Europe
By Daniel Schwammenthal
26 July 2013
"We are all Hezbollah now...
EU and Hezbollah: Half a Loaf is Far Better Than No Loaf
By David Harris
The European Union has now designated the “military wing” of Hezbollah as a terrorist...
AJC Transatlantic Institute Welcomes the EU's Designation of Hezbollah's Military Wing
22 July 2013 – Brussels – The AJC Transatlantic Institute welcomed the decision of the European Union at today’s Foreign Affairs Council to list the “military wing” of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization.
"Today’s decision by EU Foreign...
To Honor the Burgas Victims, Condemn Hezbollah
By Daniel Schwammenthal
The Wall Street Journal Europe
The tourists had just boarded...
Daniel Schwammenthal “Live From…” the European Council in Brussels
EU Foreign Ministers will meet on Monday, July 22, 2013 in the European Council building to discuss whether or not to designate Hezbollah as a terrorist organisation. Speaking from in front of that building just one day before the first anniversary of that horrific attack,...
