https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6_MYeas36N/ : “What is taking place in Palestine did not begin in October, but 76 years ago with Israel’s occupation. EU complicity did not begin in October either. Long before then, Ursula von der Leyen supported Israel & peddled its lies. Here’s a video from last year on pro-Israel propaganda from the European Commission”.
A public hearing was held on April 9th at the European Parliament on the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and the failure of EU Member States and institutions to meet their obligations to prevent it.
The full event is available here:
• Francesca Albanese (United Nations Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories)
• Daniel Levy (President of US-Middle East Project, former senior adviser to the Israeli government of Ehud Barak and former member of official Israeli delegation to peace talks at Taba and Oslo B under Yitzhak Rabin.)
• Diana Buttu (Lawyer and analyst, former legal adviser to Palestinian negotiating team and to President Mahmoud Abbas)
Hosted by the Left in the European Parliament, the event was organised by MEPs Clare Daly and Mick Wallace MEP, and co-chaired with Manu Pineda MEP (Chair of the European Parliament Delegation for Relations with Palestine) and Marc Botenga MEP.
The event was attended by MEPs and a large number of EU staff from the EU institutions in Brussels, including the European Parliament, the European Commission and the Council of the EU.