The #EU had a choice yesterday to uphold its own values or to look away. It chose the latter. By backing away from suspending the EU-Israel Association Agreement, Europe once again signals that accountability is selective, conditional, and deeply political.
This is complicity.

The EU must not wait till Israel starts executing Palestinians It must cancel the EU-Israel Association Agreement immediately over Israeli violations of the human rights clause.

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Enough Talk, It’s Time to Suspend the EU–Israel Agreement Sign up. Make your voice heard. Stop Europe from being a passive and often complicit bystander in Israel's relentless crimes against humanity.

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Why Viktor Orbán’s defeat in Hungary won’t impact European policy toward Israel Despite the media narrative that Netanyahu “lost” an ally in Europe, Péter Magyar’s decisive win in Hungary will not shift EU policy on Israel, because it is not being set by neofascists like Viktor O...

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Yes, I do! I believe human rights activists are appalled, as I am, by Pakistan army's indiscriminate attacks on what they claim are Pakistani Taliban sanctuaries in Afghanistan. The general public: not so much🫤

Eyal Weizman · All they will find is sand: Gaza’s Yellow Line Most of the Gaza Strip – cities, refugee camps, schools, universities, mosques, the health infrastructure, agriculture...

"Dispossessed of their ancestral habitats, separated from the land on which they depended for sustenance and ritual, forced into reservations, Indigenous populations were destroyed to free up the best land for European settlement"👉🏼. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Years of evidence and still no admission from EU Commission on Greek pushbacks Despite years of evidence and verified reports by a senior official within the EU's border agency Frontex, the European Commission still won't acknowledge that Greece pushes back migrants, which is il...

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Suspend EU-Israel Trade Agreement Both Germany and Italy have the power to sway the decision.

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Spain’s Sánchez is Proof That EU Leaders Can Move Beyond Eurocentric Views The Spanish prime minister still has to prove that his more humble, more open and cooperative posture can work in a transactional, zero-sum game world. But kudos for trying.

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Women Against Fascism stand for democracy and human rights. We protest the normalisation of fascism in the EU, every first Tuesday of the month in front of the HQ of the European Commission in Brussels.

Trump threats cause dilemma for US officers: disobey orders or commit war crimes Legal experts say attacking Iran’s infrastructure would constitute a war crime – but would military officers be held responsible?

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@koertdebeuf.bsky.social making waves in the Netherlands! We need an English translation 👍

‘Racist ideology lodges itself amid austerity politics’: newly elected French mayor on tackling far right Bally Bagayoko, who was targeted by racist abuse after winning Saint-Denis mayorship, vows to tackle inequality to stem deepening divisions

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Death, displacement and military duties: children plunged into crisis by Middle East war The US-Israeli war will have a lifelong impact on millions of children across the Middle East

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Is the US committing war crimes by targeting Iran’s civilian infrastructure? International law experts ‘seriously concerned’ about ‘strikes on schools, health centres and homes’ in contravention of Geneva conventions

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THIS perfectly describes most of today’s media bias and failure!

My year in solitary confinement has not broken me. My peaceful fight for Baloch rights in Pakistan goes on | Mahrang Baloch No home in Balochistan is safe and enforced disappearances are widespread. Detaining me and other rights activists only confirms the justice of our cause

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In A "Time of Monsters", I Felt Safe In Sarajevo In a city that has known siege, genocide and the deliberate breaking of human lives, I met people who still choose kindness, who have every reason to harden and yet remain generous and open.

War is big business.The people I met in Sarajevo and others working for peace amid wars are living proof that love is a powerful human force. Like a strong river, it cannot be contained 👉🏼open.substack.com/pub/shadaislam/p/in-a-ti...

The new ‘Brussels effect’ — learning to be silent on US-Israel to keep funding Debates are becoming more muted as equality experts and activists learn to be silent on questions like Gaza and the illegal US and Israeli attack on Iran for fear of losing their access to much-needed...

"Debates are becoming more muted as equality experts & activists learn to be silent on questions like Gaza and the illegal US & Israeli attack on Iran for fear of losing their access to much-needed EU funding. It is, as one participant says, the new Brussels effect”.
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Trump’s video game war: AI, memes and a simplistic narrative have flattened the conflict | Nesrine Malik What was supposed to be a quick win has become a quagmire, so it now must be reduced to a dopamine hit, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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‘This is the saddest moment’: families search for loved ones on Eid after Kabul hospital strike At least 400 killed in Pakistan’s strike on drug rehab centre, Taliban say, with families searching unmarked mass graves

This is awful. Shame! 👉🏼www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/21/kabul-...

Israel has crushed Unrwa in Gaza – and the rest of the world has done nothing | Philippe Lazzarini I bow out of my role for the organisation at a perilous time for the international law. There are consequences not just for Palestinians, but the wider Middle East, says Unrwa commissioner-general Phi...

"The abject failure to muster an effective multilateral and international law-based response in Gaza enabled a war outside international legal boundaries – one that is now spreading across and beyond the Middle East". www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Trump administration kills children abroad while being ‘pro-life’ at home | Arwa Mahdawi In Georgia a woman was charged with murder after allegedly taking pills to induce a termination. Yet America happily drops bombs on children abroad

So heartbreaking and so true👇🏼www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/2...

Ramadan Ends in Shame For All of Us and Especially the Muslim World My late father taught me to speak truth to power in the face of injustice and cruelty. And the painful truth is that this Ramadan, it is not only Europe that has saddened me, it is the Muslim world.

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‘The saddest day for Muslim worshippers in Jerusalem’: al-Aqsa mosque closed at Eid Palestinians say the move is part of a wider Israeli strategy to leverage security tensions to tighten restrictions

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Shada Islam (@shadaislam) It's been a difficult month of tears and grief…as a European I have been critical of the EU but Muslim leaders must share the blame of violence in Ramadan

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How ignorance, misunderstanding and obfuscation ended Iran nuclear talks Negotiators had reached agreement on key issues despite Trump team’s idiosyncratic approach. Two days later, war began

I almost cried when I read this. We could have avoided so much bloodshed but these US "negotiators" appear to be addicted to violence👉🏼www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/18/ignora...

EU Leaders Finally Tell Trump “This Is Not Our War” - But They Have Been Enablers A world in which targeted assassinations become normalised, so-called “pre-emptive” strikes are tolerated and international law is invoked selectively, did not emerge overnight.

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