Getting an EU-funded school in the West Bank bulldozed can now get you banned from Europe, an angry and well-connected Israeli pro-settler group has found out.
The Jerusalem-based Regavim group and its founder, Meir Deutsch, came under an EU asset-freeze and visa-ban at 3.30PM on Thursday (29 May) on grounds of “seriously” abusing Palestinians’ human rights.
And the EU Council specifically cited Regavim’s role in the destruction of an EU-funded Palestinian building as its main motive.
“Regavim … lobbied for the demolition of a Palestinian primary school, funded by the European Union, at the Jabbet al Dhib village, near Bethlehem, in the West Bank in May 2023”, said the EU’s Official Journal.
The school used to have five classrooms and 45 pupils.
