Justice Minister Yariv Levin accused the European Union of "working to topple the elected government from power." Levin wrote these remarks in his response to a petition by the Zulat Institute for Equality and Human Rights, claiming among other things that "the European Union funds protests against Israel's elected government, and this during an existential war." He alleged that the petitioner is "funded by foreign powers that are extremely hostile to the State of Israel. The hostility of those powers reached its peak during the War of Revival—which has not yet ended—by imposing an arms embargo on Israel, in an attempt to prevent it from achieving total victory over the Nazi-Hamas enemy."