The head of the French Socialist Party called for a reversal of a decision allowing the transmission of Hezbollah’s TV channel. In a letter to the country’s public broadcasting authority on Saturday, party leader Francois Hollande said that “the non-stop transmission of clips inciting children toward hatred and martyrdom” is “incompatible with the values of the European Union.” The broadcasting authority agreed to license Hezbollah’s Al-Manar channel on Nov. 19, a decision which will allow it to continue transmitting throughout the E.U.’s 25 nations.
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