Comment on Australia sanctions Israeli extremists in response to violence in Palestine
MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 2 weeks agoAt 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.
Yliaster@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 2 weeks 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.
Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
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.
Yliaster@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I disagree, and can prove that’s not the case.
Ben-Gvir’s treatment is very much the exception and not representative of the treatment of Israel as a whole by countries such as France and Germany.
newarab.com/…/frances-repression-palestine-solida…
Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
This is not a proof but a continuation of a smear campaign using half-truths and disinformation. You pick and choose details to form a anti-Western, anti-democratic narrative while in other threads you are downplaying atrocities by China and similar regimes.
As a European, I am not happy how governments in Europe respond to Israel, but what you are doing is authoritarian propaganda.