Israeli officials blasted a Danish aid group for erecting a mock fence at a European music festival to protest Israel’s West Bank security barrier. “If it’s political activism, fine, but don’t call yourself an aid organization,” Ephraim Ben-Mattiyahu, Israel’s deputy chief of mission in Denmark, said of the plywood fence erected by DanChurchAid at the festival near Copenhagen.
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