EU Militarism and War Policies

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• Partners in Crime EU complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza

  • EU Militarism and War Policies
  • Middle East and North Africa
  • Palestine

  Since the attacks of 7 October, the EU has provided political cover and material support for Israel. This has continued through almost eight months of unrelenting bombardment with almost 40,000 people killed, the forced displacement of 2.3 million people, the fastest descent into starvation of an entire population ever recorded and the total destruction of Gaza’s civilian infrastructure including homes, hospitals, schools and universities, places of worship and bakeries. This support continued as Israel was placed on trial for genocide at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague and as the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced that it would seek arrest warrants for Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and defence minister Yoav Gallant. Were the EU to have applied pressure in October by imposing sanctions, an arms embargo and prohibiting the transit of US military equipment through Europe, Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza may have been curtailed. The EU chose not to act then, and it continues to fail in its legal and moral duty to act now. This political cover and material support, particularly in light of the ICJ’s interim ruling which put all states on notice of a plausible case of genocide, makes the EU directly complicit in it.

  Policy briefing by

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    Niamh Ní Bhriain
  • 

    Mark Akkerman

  Publication date: 4 June 2024

  

• Under the Radar Twenty years of EU military missions

  • EU Militarism and War Policies
  • Militarism

  Policy briefing by

  Josephine Solanki

  Publication date: 8 May 2024

  

• Smoke Screen How states are using the war in Ukraine to drive a new arms race

  • EU Militarism and War Policies
  • Militarism

  Publication by

  • Mark Akkerman
  • Niamh Ní Bhriain
  • Josephine Solanki

  Publication date: 30 November 2022

  

• Fanning the Flames : How the European Union is fuelling a new arms race

  • Border Wars
  • EU Militarism and War Policies

  Report by

  • Mark Akkerman
  • Pere Brunet
  • Andrew Feinstein
  • Tony Fortin
  • Angela Hegarty
  • Niamh Ní Bhriain
  • Joaquín Rodriguez Alvarez
  • Laëtitia Sédou
  • Alix Smidman
  • Josephine Solanki

  Publication date: 17 March 2022

• Hold Fire – why we must reject militarism for peace

  • EU Militarism and War Policies
  • Peace and Neutrality

  Longread by

  Niamh Ní Bhriain

  Publication date: 28 July 2022