{"id":33028,"date":"2020-11-25T19:00:07","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T19:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imti.org.il\/?p=33028"},"modified":"2020-12-01T08:35:59","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T08:35:59","slug":"eucolonialismout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eng.imti.org.il\/en\/eucolonialismout\/","title":{"rendered":"Chasing Away Shameless EU Colonialists"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, European Union officials had the chutzpah to hold a tour of the “East” Jerusalem neighborhood Givat HaMatos in order to criticize Israel for its plans to build an additional 1,257 homes in the neighborhood.<\/span><\/p>\n

But instead of allowing the EU officials to shamelessly tell us where we can or cannot build in our capital city, our activists turned the tables on them.<\/span><\/p>\n

We filmed each of their faces for everyone to see and even succeeded in chasing them away.<\/span><\/p>\n

The four videos we filmed from the encounter were viewed on Facebook alone more than 175,000 times (!), and our activities were <\/span>widely covered by the media, including in one of Germany’s largest papers.<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

It’s important to note that although emotions were high, our activists remained calm and composed throughout the encounter, and there were no physical altercations whatsoever.<\/span><\/p>\n

Read more: Times of Israel<\/a><\/span>, Jewish Press<\/a><\/span>, Jerusalem Post<\/a><\/span>, JNS<\/a><\/span>, i24<\/a><\/span>, Israel National News<\/a><\/span>, Electric Intifada<\/a><\/span>, AL-Monitor<\/a><\/span>, Ynet<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Last week, European Union officials had the chutzpah to hold a tour of the “East” Jerusalem neighborhood Givat HaMatos in order to criticize Israel for its plans to build an additional 1,257 homes in the neighborhood. But instead of allowing the EU officials to shamelessly tell us where we can or cannot build in our…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[1154,1155,1156,1157,1158,1159,1160,1161,1162,1163,1164,1165,1166,1167,1152,1168,1153,1169,1051,1010,1001,938,913,850,646,644,477,362,357],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\t\n