The European Union's executive approved on Wednesday new guidelines for labelling products from Jewish settlements in territories captured by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War, a move that has already been criticized by Israel as "disguised anti-Semitism."
The decision, which Brussels says is technical, came after months of procrastinating but underscores the EU's unhappiness over Israel's continued expansion of settlements on territory that Palestinians are seeking as theirs for a future state.
Because of its longstanding opposition to the expansion of settlements the EU is now seeking to further differentiate its relations with Israel and with the settlements, fearing that a continued status quo would never push the Israeli government into changes.