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3 unusual facts about Fundamental Rights Agency


Fundamental Rights Agency

A conservative Roman Catholic activist member of the Agency's independent Advisory Panel, Gudrun Kugler, alleged that the Agency's interest in homophobia was disproportionate.

Brian Klug argues that this definition proscribed legitimate criticism of the human rights record of the Israeli Government by attempting to bring criticism of Israel into the category of antisemitism, and does not sufficiently distinguish between criticism of Israeli actions and criticism of Zionism as a political ideology, on the one hand, and racially based violence towards, discrimination against, or abuse of, Jews.

English Conservative MEP Charles Tannock said in 2005 that "the Agency will duplicate work of other bodies".



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