 Another textbook stated that European anti-Semitism was caused by Jewish greed and fanaticism.Other examples led Francois Zimeray, a French socialist, to state that there is "...substantial proof that EU funding has wrongly been used to finance school textbooks promoting hatred and inciting to martyrdom".However, Chris Patten, on the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament, and External Relations Commissioner stated that "It is a total fabrication that the European Union has funded textbooks with anti-Semitic arguments within them in Palestinian schools.