Humanitarian talk, business as usual: Western hypocrisy on Gaza

Published 25 Jul 2025 by Richard Kuper

Residents on the Greek island of Syros prevented passengers on an Israeli cruise ship from getting off the vessel, in protest against Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Al Jazeera screengrab

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Here we pull together some information about trade with Israel.

Some 25 countries—including the UK, France, Italy, Japan, Australia, Canada, Denmark, and New Zealand—have just issued a joint statement urging an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and an end to Israeli atrocities.

Mizan shows their hypocrisy as they contine to trade happily with Israel, thank you very much.

Of course the United States is far and away Israel’s biggest trading partner and marches in lockstep with it.

And as for the EU, economic collaboration with Israel is a nice little earner as shown in this article, Economic sanctions now: the EU is Israel’s largest investor posted here yesterday.

This article was originally published by Mizan Online News Agency on Wed 23 Jul 2025. Read the original here.