The truth is that the EU does not care about the pogroms, about the Palestinian family whose house was torched last night or the settlers who shot and killed a child in a school yesterday. The only time they moved towards sanctions is when Israel bombed Qatar (Sep 25). That's "EU values".
!["Kallas rejected criticism that the bloc’s approach to Israel suggested a double standard, a charge levelled by some EU insiders, while raising doubts about the impact of sanctions. “A suspension of the association agreement, will it stop the expansion [by Israeli settlers] on the West Bank? You know this is probably also not true.”
From https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/21/eu-foreign-ministers-reject-proposal-suspend-association-agreement-israel](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zkolo4y7hpfos5kyn53kj73n/bafkreih2mki6yocygpjavexmtdehkuxjestygoibrwzt4ieo2u7o2lfm3m)
"Kallas rejected criticism that the bloc’s approach to Israel suggested a double standard, a charge levelled by some EU insiders, while raising doubts about the impact of sanctions. “A suspension of the association agreement, will it stop the expansion [by Israeli settlers] on the West Bank? You know this is probably also not true.” From https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/21/eu-foreign-ministers-reject-proposal-suspend-association-agreement-israel
A similar line from Kallas to the Biden administration's - "Israel is going to do this anyhow, our sanctions wouldn't make a difference".
Sanctions would absolutely make a difference: they'd empower those who are trying to stop the pogroms. By not taking steps you are empowering the Kahanist govt.
Officials say Israel’s attacks on humanitarian aid workers aim to block essential aid from reaching Palestinians, as Israel continues to impose a blockade on Gaza seven months into the so-called “ceasefire.”
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#Palestine #Israel
Israeli settlers murdered a 13-year-old student and 32-year-old man in attack on #WestBank school, near #Ramallah, today aje.news/0v16yj?updat...
Four Palestinians were killed by Israeli shelling and gunfire in northern and southern #Gaza this morning, Wafa reports english.wafa.ps/Pages/Detail...
Israel meanwhile continues to carry out attacks on #Lebanon despite the ceasefire. Today six people were injured in an Israeli attack in #Nabatieh, Lebanons news agency report
Israeli attacks on #Lebanon have killed at least 2,387 people since early March, the Lebanese government says. Since the ceasefire went into force Friday, rescuers have been recovering bodies from under the rubble aje.news/3i78ht?updat...
Walid Ahmad is het eerste Palestijnse kind dat in een Israëlisch martelkamp overleed. Hij werd systematisch geslagen, uitgehongerd en medisch verwaarloosd. Na 6 maanden viel hij dood neer.
Samen voeren we de druk op: rightsforum.org/petitie/stop...
'[…] zolang we het proces van dekolonisatie, het doorbreken van de verdeling van de wereld tussen een superieur Westen boven een inferieure rest, niet afmaken’ de-moon.nl/Blog/De-MOON...
Uit mijn boek: 'al mijn pogingen in dit boek om te “verbinden” zijn futiel zolang we in het Westen niet dezelfde waarde hechten aan een gedood Palestijns kind als aan een Israëlisch kind'
Dit betoog ik ook in mijn boek #Alexandrië. Ik begin het boek met een romantische idee van 'bruggen slaan' tussen werelden, maar keer ik me gaandeweg af van dat hele frame, omdat ik inzien dat wanneer men over 'bruggen' tussen Europa-Arabische wereld spreekt dat nooit op basis van gelijkheid is
'Dialoog kan pas als er sprake is van gelijkwaardigheid en wie zegt dat er sprake is van gelijkwaardigheid in de discussie rond #Gaza, die liegt of houdt zichzelf voor de gek.'
. @frontaalnaakt.nl maakt terecht gehakt van het NRC verhaal over een 'gemende school' in Jeruzalem en de valse voorstelling van 'dialoog' als oplossing van onrecht www.frontaalnaakt.nl/archives/dia...
'Among those monitored were a Palestinian academic invited to give a guest lecture at Manchester Metropolitan University and a pro-Gaza PhD student at the London School of Economics'
Twelve British universities paid a private firm run by former military intelligence officials to “spy” on student protesters and academics, including those who have expressed solidarity with #Palestine, Al Jazeera reports aje.news/30ic1p
Israeli forces killed two Palestinians in #Gaza on Sunday evening, of which one child, Wafa reports. Attacks happened in Maghazi and Nuseirat english.wafa.ps/Pages/Detail...
The phrase goes, "When someone shows you who you are, believe them."
Palantir has done just that. It has shown us that it has no regard for the sanctity of human life, that it has no qualms separating families and terrorizing children, and that it believes we are not all equal.
Good thread on the dangers of tech company Palantir's ideologicial mission for , basically, the whole of humanity
In the midst of a genocide, Palantir entered into a new strategic partnership with the Israeli Ministry of Defense and became complicit in Israel's illegal targeting of civilians and disproportionate use of force.
BHRC has more: www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-ne...
Today, a lot of people will be talking about the manifesto that Palantir released. In addition to pouring over what those words mean, I invite you to ground the conversation in what Palantir has already done.
Its work with Israel and ICE show us exactly what it stands for.
Mijn reportage uit #Egypte, over Palestijnen die zijn gevlucht uit #Gaza maar nu geen kant op kunnen, en geen enkel perspectief hebben een leven op te bouwen. De situatie is zo uitzichtloos dat veel terug naar Gaza willen. Zelden heb ik zo'n zware interviews afgenomen
Big relief there is a ceasefire in #Lebanon (for now), but remember, Israeli fire at Palestinians never ceases.
Israel targeted a water desalination facility in #Gaza with a drone today, killing one Palestinian and injuring two aje.news/zo0udq?updat...
Zo’n honderdduizend Palestijnen vluchtten tijdens de genocide uit de Gazastrook naar Egypte. Hun situatie daar, zonder legale status, biedt geen enkel perspectief en drijft tot wanhoop. rightsforum.org/situatie-palestijnen-in-...
Mijn reportage uit #Egypte, over Palestijnen die zijn gevlucht uit #Gaza maar nu geen kant op kunnen, en geen enkel perspectief hebben een leven op te bouwen. De situatie is zo uitzichtloos dat veel terug naar Gaza willen. Zelden heb ik zo'n zware interviews afgenomen
‘Het boek van de verdwijning’ draait om een ‘wat, als’ gedachtenexperiment. Wat als alle Palestijnen van het ene moment op het andere, zijn verdwenen uit het hele gebied van historisch Palestina? rightsforum.org/opinie/roman-over-myster...
"17-year-old Mohammad Murad Rayyan was shot dead this morning by Israeli occupation forces during a raid on the town of Beit Duqqu, northwest of Jerusalem, according to local and medical sources.
His body was seized by the forces."
Israeli airstrikes killed four paramedics in ‘triple-tap’ strike in southern #Lebanon today, since 2 March Israel killed 91 healthcare workers, Lebanese ministry said aje.news/lxeq57?updat...
"As a result of the continued fighting, Sudan faces the world’s worst humanitarian, displacement, and hunger crises. More than 13.6 million people are displaced, 30 million are in need of assistance, and over 22 million are facing acute hunger."
Ending the war in Sudan cannot wait.
US citizen Ahmed Shihab-Eldin was arrested six weeks ago in Kuwait, faces prosecution before a special tribunal for his social media posts, and remains behind bars today.
Kuwaiti authorities can still course correct by dropping all charges against him and releasing him immediately.
“It is January 2026, and it's my first trip back since I fled the war, and the longest I've spent outside Sudan in my adult life.”
After nearly three years, Mahitab Mahgoub returns to Khartoum and shares her reflections in this personal piece: timep.org/2026/04/14/r...