European Commission President’s unctuous support for Israel called out by MEP Clare Daly
JVL Introduction
On the 75th anniversary of what Israel calls Independence Day and what for Palestinians marks the Nakba, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen published a short sycophantic video of congratulations.
It contained a series of appalling distortions as Irish MEP Clare Daly pointed out in a series of short, critical videos. Each one takes an extract from von der Leyen’s ingratiating message and explains the untruths and misrepresentations on which it was based.
The text below is Ali Abunimah’s report in the Electronic Intifada, slightly rearranged with all five videos collected together at the end.
This article was originally published by Electronic Intifada on Fri 19 May 2023. Read the original here.
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Brilliant points – Well-made by Clare Daly, MEP.
Ursula von der Leyen is a disgrace.
The European Union is increasingly prepared to be seen as a willing tool of the US hegemony and the Apartheid State of Israel.
I hope there are more MEPs with the principles and the courage of Clare Daly.
I’m sorry but these two MEPs have really dodgy politics other than their support for Palestinian rights: outspoken support for the regimes of Iran, Syria, Belarus for starters as well as Russia and China. Read more about failed property magnate & anti-vaxxer here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Wallace
Can JVL PLEASE be more careful what you publish? This is not the first time.
The EU ‘Troika’, consisting of the IMF (set up by USA post WW2 to spread Neo-liberal Capitalism world-wide); the European Commission (27 un-elected members) & the European Central Bank (CEO Christine Legarde, see Greece/negligence, ex IMF), has a history of accusations of corruption. Ursula Von Der Leyen has an ‘interesting’ family history with close links to slavery and connections/support for NATO. Not surprising that she expresses support for the apartheid state of Israel.
The hypocracy of Ursula van der Leyen is almost shown every day. Thanks to Clare Daly the real policy of the EU is shown to be a just a distortion of democracy,freedom, truth.
Clare Daly is a great politician
Sinn Fein need to get her on board
Has my previous comment fallen foul of the website policy? I certainly didn’t intend to be abusive but I’m honestly a bit worried about a couple of recent articles which seem to me be practically chemtrail-left. I see the same mistake made in the opposite direction by some of my feminist sisters who don’t seem to care that their gender-critical views are aligning them with the conservative-right and far-right. JVL imo has run a brilliant blog for many years and it would be sad if it lurched into the sectarian underworld. Please be more careful with your friends in future.
I thought I’d just quickly check out Clare’s twitter page and, as such, came across this, from yesterday:
A whopping 87% of Irish people favour peace negotiations in Ukraine, according to an @IpsosIreland Omnipoll commissioned by @PANAIreland.
While the government aligns us with the most extreme pro-war voices in Europe, its position is backed by a tiny sliver of public opinion.
https://twitter.com/ClareDalyMEP/status/1661317941537693697