At a guess, Europe beginning to normalize speaking up as they distance themselves from the US hegemony. Early days, and we’re unfortunately pretty damned locked in to the US militarily ourselves, which makes for a precarious position what with Trumps whims, but one (bloody) hopes wheels are starting to slowly turn on that.
Comment on Australia sanctions Israeli extremists in response to violence in Palestine
ShrimpCurler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
I find this to be odd timing. This shit has been going on for ages and lately our government seems to have been completely ignoring the travesties done in the name of Israel. So why are they applying these sanctions now?
MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 6 hours ago
Yliaster@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
This is NZ though, not EU?
The EU is doing the opposite. France is fast-tracking laws to penalize pro-palestinian speech and protests as “extremism”. Germany is the same.
Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org 7 minutes ago
The EU is doing the opposite. France is fast-tracking laws to penalize pro-palestinian speech and protests as “extremism”.
EU approves new sanctions on Israeli settlers over West Bank violence
France joins EU sanctions pressure on Israel
France bans Israeli minister Ben-Gvir from entering country
This is a small sample from the last few weeks. What European governments and the EU are doing against Israel is by far not enough, but your statements are outright wrong.
MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 3 hours ago
It does say Australia in the headline.
A fair number of EU politicians have been pretty vocal.
Australia is also doing the extremism thing (see ‘Between the river and the sea’ in QLD, protests in NSW, Vic). I see that more as a part of an ongoing campaign against protests in general happening widely across the world.
zero_gravitas@aussie.zone 6 hours ago
Ed Husic has been making some noise recently (aussie.zone/post/33103714). These sanctions are probably intended to allow Wong to claim they’re doing something (they’re not).