The EU demonstrates ‘blatant’ double standards in its treatment of Israel
The lack of action and double standards demonstrated by the European Union when it comes to Israel’s aggression have damaged its credibility, Lynn Boylan, an Irish member of the European Parliament representing Sinn Fein, tells Al Jazeera.
She said the failure to hold Israel accountable, after nearly two years of its war on Gaza, stands in stark contrast to the “swift action taken” by the EU when it came to Russia after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
“The double standards are so blatant … and citizens are telling me that every single day that they are ashamed of the EU … that why should any country respect trade agreements or any other form of agreement or negotiation or cooperation with the EU, when Israel is able just to tear up international law with no consequences,” she said.
EU a ‘willing partner’ in Israel’s ‘genocide, apartheid and military occupation’
Israel’s stance that it faces an “existential threat” from Hamas and Iran has no validity, says Giorgia Gusciglio, the Europe coordinator of campaigns for the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement promoting economic pressure against Israel.
“Israel has committed war crimes, crimes against humanity. The International Court of Justice has said that Israel is violating the rights of self-determination of the Palestinian people,” she told Al Jazeera.
“It’s committing the crime of apartheid. It’s the crime against humanity. So it keeps violating all human rights, all international law measures, and it keeps doing so thanks to EU colonial hypocrisy and double standards.”
Gusciglio asserted that the EU, in fact, is a “willing partner” in Israel’s “genocide, apartheid and military occupation”.
“It keeps acting as a poodle for the US and Israel. It keeps undermining international law, enabling Israel to do unspeakable horror, and this is only possible thanks to military, financial, political, diplomatic and other forms of unconditional support.”
Guscigli added that the EU should terminate the EU-Israel Association Agreement, as well as stop the sale and transfer of weapons to and from Israel.
